Patch "x86/perf: Fix CR4.PCE propagation to use active_mm instead of mm" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    x86/perf: Fix CR4.PCE propagation to use active_mm instead of mm

to the 4.4-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:
     x86-perf-fix-cr4.pce-propagation-to-use-active_mm-instead-of-mm.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 5dc855d44c2ad960a86f593c60461f1ae1566b6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 12:59:39 -0700
Subject: x86/perf: Fix CR4.PCE propagation to use active_mm instead of mm

From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>

commit 5dc855d44c2ad960a86f593c60461f1ae1566b6d upstream.

If one thread mmaps a perf event while another thread in the same mm
is in some context where active_mm != mm (which can happen in the
scheduler, for example), refresh_pce() would write the wrong value
to CR4.PCE.  This broke some PAPI tests.

Reported-and-tested-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bpetkov@suse.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 7911d3f7af14 ("perf/x86: Only allow rdpmc if a perf_event is mapped")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0c5b38a76ea50e405f9abe07a13dfaef87c173a1.1489694270.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
@@ -1996,8 +1996,8 @@ static int x86_pmu_event_init(struct per
 
 static void refresh_pce(void *ignored)
 {
-	if (current->mm)
-		load_mm_cr4(current->mm);
+	if (current->active_mm)
+		load_mm_cr4(current->active_mm);
 }
 
 static void x86_pmu_event_mapped(struct perf_event *event)


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from luto@kernel.org are

queue-4.4/x86-perf-fix-cr4.pce-propagation-to-use-active_mm-instead-of-mm.patch