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From: Alexander Dahl <ada@thorsis.com>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: perf: Apply e9a6882f267a to v4.9 stable (fix for null-pointer dereference)
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 11:01:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4431770.U1WXKbcAmY@ada> (raw)

Hei hei,

please apply e9a6882f267a8105461066e3ea6b4b6b9be1b807 ("perf event: Check 
ref_reloc_sym before using it") to the v4.9 stable tree and maybe to later LTS 
trees (v4.14, v4.19) as well. 

That change is in mainline since v5.4-rc1 and it's a fix for a possible null 
pointer dereference in the tool 'perf', so it is a fix for a user space tool 
coming with the kernel tree actually.

I am directly affeted by this, calling 'perf record' on an at91 based device 
(armv5te, sam9g20 soc) running PREEMPT RT kernel 4.9.220-rt143 results in a 
segfault here.  I debugged this with gdb and tracked it down to the exact 
pointer being NULL, which is checked now in that above mentioned changeset.

I could cleanly apply that changeset to my local tree and the segfault is not 
triggered anymore, I can use perf on that platform now.

I only tested this on the above mentioned v4.9 based kernel version.

Thanks & Greets
Alex




             reply	other threads:[~2020-11-25 10:07 UTC|newest]

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2020-11-25 10:01 Alexander Dahl [this message]
2020-11-25 11:48 ` perf: Apply e9a6882f267a to v4.9 stable (fix for null-pointer dereference) Greg KH

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