From: Will Deacon Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:47:40 +0000 (+0100) Subject: arm64: perf: fix event validation for software group leaders X-Git-Tag: v3.11-rc7~21^2 X-Git-Url: http://pileus.org/git/?p=~andy%2Flinux;a=commitdiff_plain;h=ee7538a008a45050c8f706d38b600f55953169f9 arm64: perf: fix event validation for software group leaders 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. Cc: Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas --- diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c index 2012646fb46..12e6ccb8869 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;