+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #675734 +++

This is already fixed in RHEL 5 (bug 568754), and we need to get this into RHEL 6 too. The Fedora packages are also affected.

Upstream commit:

From d4490efed068a552e8b67d52a0726458a224c9a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Frank Arnold <frank.arnold>
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 17:39:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] cpufrequtils aperf: Fix MSR read on 32-bit

The cpufreq-aperf command does not work on 32-bit systems. The reason
for that is a wrong count argument passed to the read() call. Instead
of the buffer size, the size of the pointer to the buffer is used. On
64-bit systems this just happened to work, because we need to read an
8 byte value and a pointer has a size of 8 bytes on 64-bit. On 32-bit
systems only 4 bytes are read, which then triggers the error path.

Signed-off-by: Frank Arnold <frank.arnold>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux>
---
 utils/aperf.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/utils/aperf.c b/utils/aperf.c
index 1c64501..6302f5a 100644
--- a/utils/aperf.c
+++ b/utils/aperf.c
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ static int read_msr(int cpu, unsigned int idx, unsigned long long *val)
 		return -1;
 	if (lseek(fd, idx, SEEK_CUR) == -1)
 		goto err;
-	if (read(fd, val, sizeof val) != sizeof *val)
+	if (read(fd, val, sizeof *val) != sizeof *val)
 		goto err;
 	close(fd);
 	return 0;
-- 
1.7.4