[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "arm64: perf: fix event validation for software group leaders" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    arm64: perf: fix event validation for software group leaders

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.8.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From e75485b0f68abda75493b9ac9d4d235fe461b728 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 11:47:40 +0100
Subject: arm64: perf: fix event validation for software group leaders

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 at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c
index 8a724a1..34e1bca 100644
--- 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_events,
 	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;

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1.8.1.2