Commit 927c7a9e92c4 ( perf: Fix race in callchains ) introduced a
mismatch in the sizing of struct callchain_cpus_entries.

nr_cpu_ids must be used instead of num_possible_cpus(), or we might get
out of bound memory accesses on some machines.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
CC: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
CC: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
CC: David Miller <[email protected]>
CC: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
CC: [email protected]
---
 kernel/perf_event.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index 126a302..852ae8c 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -1999,8 +1999,7 @@ static int alloc_callchain_buffers(void)
         * accessed from NMI. Use a temporary manual per cpu allocation
         * until that gets sorted out.
         */
-       size = sizeof(*entries) + sizeof(struct perf_callchain_entry *) *
-               num_possible_cpus();
+       size = offsetof(struct callchain_cpus_entries, cpu_entries[nr_cpu_ids]);
 
        entries = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!entries)


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