This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
perf: Treat attr.config as u64 in perf_swevent_init()
to the 3.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
perf-treat-attr.config-as-u64-in-perf_swevent_init.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 8176cced706b5e5d15887584150764894e94e02f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 22:49:14 +0300
Subject: perf: Treat attr.config as u64 in perf_swevent_init()
From: Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 8176cced706b5e5d15887584150764894e94e02f upstream.
Trinity discovered that we fail to check all 64 bits of
attr.config passed by user space, resulting to out-of-bounds
access of the perf_swevent_enabled array in
sw_perf_event_destroy().
Introduced in commit b0a873ebb ("perf: Register PMU
implementations").
Signed-off-by: Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: davej@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365882554-30259-1-git-send-email-tt.rantala@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/events/core.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -5328,7 +5328,7 @@ static void sw_perf_event_destroy(struct
static int perf_swevent_init(struct perf_event *event)
{
- int event_id = event->attr.config;
+ u64 event_id = event->attr.config;
if (event->attr.type != PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE)
return -ENOENT;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tt.rantala@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.8/perf-treat-attr.config-as-u64-in-perf_swevent_init.patch
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