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authorBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2015-07-27 01:31:08 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-08-12 11:37:21 +0200
commitee9397a6fb9bc4e52677f5e33eed4abee0f515e6 (patch)
treee651e0dadf1362f500177552d6e99707ff441959 /kernel/events
parentperf: Fix fasync handling on inherited events (diff)
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perf: Fix double-free of the AUX buffer
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 <ben@decadent.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 57ffc5ca679f ("perf: Fix AUX buffer refcounting") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1437953468.12842.17.camel@decadent.org.uk Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/events')
-rw-r--r--kernel/events/ring_buffer.c10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
index b2be01b1aa9d..c8aa3f75bc4d 100644
--- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
@@ -559,11 +559,13 @@ static void __rb_free_aux(struct ring_buffer *rb)
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)