From: tip-bot for Ben Hutchings <tipbot@zytor.com>
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Subject: [tip:perf/core] perf: Fix double-free of the AUX buffer
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 05:31:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <tip-ee9397a6fb9bc4e52677f5e33eed4abee0f515e6@git.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1437953468.12842.17.camel@decadent.org.uk>
Commit-ID: ee9397a6fb9bc4e52677f5e33eed4abee0f515e6
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/ee9397a6fb9bc4e52677f5e33eed4abee0f515e6
Author: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
AuthorDate: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 00:31:08 +0100
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 11:37:21 +0200
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>
---
kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 10 ++++++----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
index b2be01b..c8aa3f7 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)
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