This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    perf: Fix double-free of the AUX buffer

to the 4.1-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:
     perf-fix-double-free-of-the-aux-buffer.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From ee9397a6fb9bc4e52677f5e33eed4abee0f515e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 00:31:08 +0100
Subject: perf: Fix double-free of the AUX buffer

From: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>

commit ee9397a6fb9bc4e52677f5e33eed4abee0f515e6 upstream.

If rb->aux_refcount is decremented to zero before rb->refcount,
__rb_free_aux() may be called twice resulting in a double free of
rb->aux_pages.  Fix this by adding a check to __rb_free_aux().

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Fixes: 57ffc5ca679f ("perf: Fix AUX buffer refcounting")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 kernel/events/ring_buffer.c |   10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
@@ -547,11 +547,13 @@ static void __rb_free_aux(struct ring_bu
                rb->aux_priv = NULL;
        }
 
-       for (pg = 0; pg < rb->aux_nr_pages; pg++)
-               rb_free_aux_page(rb, pg);
+       if (rb->aux_nr_pages) {
+               for (pg = 0; pg < rb->aux_nr_pages; pg++)
+                       rb_free_aux_page(rb, pg);
 
-       kfree(rb->aux_pages);
-       rb->aux_nr_pages = 0;
+               kfree(rb->aux_pages);
+               rb->aux_nr_pages = 0;
+       }
 }
 
 void rb_free_aux(struct ring_buffer *rb)


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.1/perf-fix-double-free-of-the-aux-buffer.patch
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