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From:   Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Date:   Thu, 2 Jan 2020 14:22:47 -0500 (EST)
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Subject: Re: [perf] perf_event_open() sometimes returning 0
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On Thu, 2 Jan 2020, Vince Weaver wrote:

> so I was tracking down some odd behavior in the perf_fuzzer which turns 
> out to be because perf_even_open() sometimes returns 0 (indicating a file 
> descriptor of 0) even though as far as I can tell stdin is still open.

error is triggered if aux_sample_size has non-zero value.

seems to be this line in kernel/events/core.c:


 if (perf_need_aux_event(event) && !perf_get_aux_event(event, group_leader))
                goto err_locked;


(note, err is never set)


Vince