This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled arm64: 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: arm64-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 ee7538a008a45050c8f706d38b600f55953169f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 11:47:40 +0100 Subject: arm64: perf: fix event validation for software group leaders From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> commit ee7538a008a45050c8f706d38b600f55953169f9 upstream. This is a port of c95eb3184ea1 ("ARM: 7809/1: perf: fix event validation for software group leaders") to arm64, which fixes a panic in the arm64 perf backend found as a result of Vince's fuzzing tool. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c @@ -322,6 +322,9 @@ validate_event(struct pmu_hw_events *hw_ struct hw_perf_event fake_event = event->hw; 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/arm64-perf-fix-array-out-of-bounds-access-in-armpmu_map_hw_event.patch queue-3.10/arm64-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