Patch "perf: Do not double free" 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

    perf: Do not double free

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:
     perf-do-not-double-free.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 130056275ade730e7a79c110212c8815202773ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 18:45:41 +0100
Subject: perf: Do not double free

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

commit 130056275ade730e7a79c110212c8815202773ee upstream.

In case of: err_file: fput(event_file), we'll end up calling
perf_release() which in turn will free the event.

Do not then free the event _again_.

Tested-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: dvyukov@google.com
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: panand@redhat.com
Cc: sasha.levin@oracle.com
Cc: vince@deater.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160224174947.697350349@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/events/core.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -8583,7 +8583,12 @@ err_context:
 	perf_unpin_context(ctx);
 	put_ctx(ctx);
 err_alloc:
-	free_event(event);
+	/*
+	 * If event_file is set, the fput() above will have called ->release()
+	 * and that will take care of freeing the event.
+	 */
+	if (!event_file)
+		free_event(event);
 err_cpus:
 	put_online_cpus();
 err_task:


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from peterz@infradead.org are

queue-4.4/perf-cure-event-pending_disable-race.patch
queue-4.4/perf-do-not-double-free.patch