This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
perf: Fix double-free of the AUX buffer
to the 4.1-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-fix-double-free-of-the-aux-buffer.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From ee9397a6fb9bc4e52677f5e33eed4abee0f515e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 00:31:08 +0100
Subject: perf: Fix double-free of the AUX buffer
From: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit ee9397a6fb9bc4e52677f5e33eed4abee0f515e6 upstream.
If rb->aux_refcount is decremented to zero before rb->refcount,
__rb_free_aux() may be called twice resulting in a double free of
rb->aux_pages. Fix this by adding a check to __rb_free_aux().
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 57ffc5ca679f ("perf: Fix AUX buffer refcounting")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1437953468.12842.17.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 10 ++++++----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
@@ -547,11 +547,13 @@ static void __rb_free_aux(struct ring_bu
rb->aux_priv = NULL;
}
- for (pg = 0; pg < rb->aux_nr_pages; pg++)
- rb_free_aux_page(rb, pg);
+ if (rb->aux_nr_pages) {
+ for (pg = 0; pg < rb->aux_nr_pages; pg++)
+ rb_free_aux_page(rb, pg);
- kfree(rb->aux_pages);
- rb->aux_nr_pages = 0;
+ kfree(rb->aux_pages);
+ rb->aux_nr_pages = 0;
+ }
}
void rb_free_aux(struct ring_buffer *rb)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.1/perf-fix-double-free-of-the-aux-buffer.patch
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