---

yaml
---
r: 169755
b: refs/heads/master
c: fdf6bc9
h: refs/heads/master
i:
  169753: e122245
  169751: 0794a81
v: v3

[refs]

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: e6db4876575f3fdd5b1df2cbff826df95ab9af6a
+refs/heads/master: fdf6bc95229821e3d9405eba28925b76e92b74d0

trunk/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c

@@ -267,7 +267,16 @@ int __register_perf_hw_breakpoint(struct perf_event *bp)
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
-	if (!bp->attr.disabled)
+	/*
+	 * Ptrace breakpoints can be temporary perf events only
+	 * meant to reserve a slot. In this case, it is created disabled and
+	 * we don't want to check the params right now (as we put a null addr)
+	 * But perf tools create events as disabled and we want to check
+	 * the params for them.
+	 * This is a quick hack that will be removed soon, once we remove
+	 * the tmp breakpoints from ptrace
+	 */
+	if (!bp->attr.disabled || bp->callback == perf_bp_event)
 		ret = arch_validate_hwbkpt_settings(bp, bp->ctx->task);
 
 	return ret;