This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled perf/x86: Avoid exposing wrong/stale data in intel_pmu_lbr_read_32() to the 4.4-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-avoid-exposing-wrong-stale-data-in-intel_pmu_lbr_read_32.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From f2200ac311302fcdca6556fd0c5127eab6c65a3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 10:10:28 +0200 Subject: perf/x86: Avoid exposing wrong/stale data in intel_pmu_lbr_read_32() From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit f2200ac311302fcdca6556fd0c5127eab6c65a3e upstream. When the perf_branch_entry::{in_tx,abort,cycles} fields were added, intel_pmu_lbr_read_32() wasn't updated to initialize them. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 135c5612c460 ("perf/x86/intel: Support Haswell/v4 LBR format") Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_lbr.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_lbr.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_lbr.c @@ -410,6 +410,9 @@ static void intel_pmu_lbr_read_32(struct cpuc->lbr_entries[i].to = msr_lastbranch.to; cpuc->lbr_entries[i].mispred = 0; cpuc->lbr_entries[i].predicted = 0; + cpuc->lbr_entries[i].in_tx = 0; + cpuc->lbr_entries[i].abort = 0; + cpuc->lbr_entries[i].cycles = 0; cpuc->lbr_entries[i].reserved = 0; } cpuc->lbr_stack.nr = i; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/x86-vdso-ensure-vdso32_enabled-gets-set-to-valid-values-only.patch queue-4.4/x86-vdso-plug-race-between-mapping-and-elf-header-setup.patch queue-4.4/cgroup-kthread-close-race-window-where-new-kthreads-can-be-migrated-to-non-root-cgroups.patch queue-4.4/perf-x86-avoid-exposing-wrong-stale-data-in-intel_pmu_lbr_read_32.patch