From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] perfcounters fix
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:59:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090915075931.GA24171@elte.hu> (raw)
Linus,
Please pull the latest perfcounters-fixes-for-linus git tree from:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git perfcounters-fixes-for-linus
Thanks,
Ingo
------------------>
Xiao Guangrong (1):
perf_counter: Fix buffer overflow in perf_copy_attr()
kernel/perf_counter.c | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/perf_counter.c b/kernel/perf_counter.c
index d7cbc57..a67a1dc 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_counter.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_counter.c
@@ -4171,6 +4171,7 @@ static int perf_copy_attr(struct perf_counter_attr __user *uattr,
if (val)
goto err_size;
}
+ size = sizeof(*attr);
}
ret = copy_from_user(attr, uattr, size);
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