This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled perf/x86/intel/rapl: Fix pmus free during cleanup to the 4.6-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-x86-intel-rapl-fix-pmus-free-during-cleanup.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 275ae411e56f8f900fa364da29c4706f9af4e1f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Vincent=20Stehl=C3=A9?= <vincent.stehle@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 16:53:49 +0200 Subject: perf/x86/intel/rapl: Fix pmus free during cleanup MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Vincent Stehlé <vincent.stehle@xxxxxxxxx> commit 275ae411e56f8f900fa364da29c4706f9af4e1f3 upstream. On rapl cleanup path, kfree() is given by mistake the address of the pointer of the structure to free (rapl_pmus->pmus + i). Pass the pointer instead (rapl_pmus->pmus[i]). Fixes: 9de8d686955b "perf/x86/intel/rapl: Convert it to a per package facility" Signed-off-by: Vincent Stehlé <vincent.stehle@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464101629-14905-1-git-send-email-vincent.stehle@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/events/intel/rapl.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/x86/events/intel/rapl.c +++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/rapl.c @@ -665,7 +665,7 @@ static void __init cleanup_rapl_pmus(voi int i; for (i = 0; i < rapl_pmus->maxpkg; i++) - kfree(rapl_pmus->pmus + i); + kfree(rapl_pmus->pmus[i]); kfree(rapl_pmus); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from vincent.stehle@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.6/perf-x86-intel-rapl-fix-pmus-free-during-cleanup.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html