This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ARM: 7809/1: perf: fix event validation for software group leaders to the 3.10-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: arm-7809-1-perf-fix-event-validation-for-software-group-leaders.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From c95eb3184ea1a3a2551df57190c81da695e2144b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 23:39:41 +0100 Subject: ARM: 7809/1: perf: fix event validation for software group leaders From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> commit c95eb3184ea1a3a2551df57190c81da695e2144b upstream. It is possible to construct an event group with a software event as a group leader and then subsequently add a hardware event to the group. This results in the event group being validated by adding all members of the group to a fake PMU and attempting to allocate each event on their respective PMU. Unfortunately, for software events wthout a corresponding arm_pmu, this results in a kernel crash attempting to dereference the ->get_event_idx function pointer. This patch fixes the problem by checking explicitly for software events and ignoring those in event validation (since they can always be scheduled). We will probably want to revisit this for 3.12, since the validation checks don't appear to work correctly when dealing with multiple hardware PMUs anyway. Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c @@ -258,6 +258,9 @@ validate_event(struct pmu_hw_events *hw_ struct arm_pmu *armpmu = to_arm_pmu(event->pmu); struct pmu *leader_pmu = event->group_leader->pmu; + if (is_software_event(event)) + return 1; + if (event->pmu != leader_pmu || event->state < PERF_EVENT_STATE_OFF) return 1; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from will.deacon@xxxxxxx are queue-3.10/arm-7809-1-perf-fix-event-validation-for-software-group-leaders.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