On Wed, 2016-07-06 at 15:13 -0700, Kevin Christopher wrote: > Stable maintainers - > > Have a request to merge an upstream security fix into stable branches. > The change avoids a userlevel-induceable kernel #GP in perf/x86 when a > hypervisor emulates older perfmon. The issue was originally seen and > accepted as an upstream patch proposed by Amazon in 2015; the security > implication when on a VMware hypervisor was recently reported. > > Upstream commit: > (commit) 2c33645d366d13b969d936b68b9f4875b1fdddea > (subject) perf/x86: Honor the architectural performance monitoring version > > A second commit fixes a trivial build issue introduced by the above commit: > (commit) 6d6f2833bfbf296101f9f085e10488aef2601ba5 > (subject) perf/x86: Fix undefined shift on 32-bit kernels [...] Belatedly queued these up for 3.16. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings compatible: Gracefully accepts erroneous data from any source
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