This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
perf/x86/intel: Fix constraint access
to the 4.2-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-x86-intel-fix-constraint-access.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.2 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From ebfb4988f0378e2ac3b4a0aa1ea20d724293f392 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 11:58:27 +0200
Subject: perf/x86/intel: Fix constraint access
From: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
commit ebfb4988f0378e2ac3b4a0aa1ea20d724293f392 upstream.
Sasha reported that we can get here with .idx==-1, and
cpuc->event_constraints unallocated.
Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Fixes: b371b5943178 ("perf/x86: Fix event/group validation")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
@@ -2102,9 +2102,12 @@ static struct event_constraint *
intel_get_event_constraints(struct cpu_hw_events *cpuc, int idx,
struct perf_event *event)
{
- struct event_constraint *c1 = cpuc->event_constraint[idx];
+ struct event_constraint *c1 = NULL;
struct event_constraint *c2;
+ if (idx >= 0) /* fake does < 0 */
+ c1 = cpuc->event_constraint[idx];
+
/*
* first time only
* - static constraint: no change across incremental scheduling calls
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-4.2/time-fix-timekeeping_freqadjust-s-incorrect-use-of-abs-instead-of-abs64.patch
queue-4.2/perf-x86-intel-fix-constraint-access.patch
queue-4.2/sched-access-local-runqueue-directly-in-single_task_running.patch
queue-4.2/locking-qspinlock-x86-only-emit-the-test-and-set-fallback-when-building-guest-support.patch
queue-4.2/locking-qspinlock-x86-fix-performance-regression-under-unaccelerated-vms.patch
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