Ping?
On 08/21/2015 04:31 PM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On 05/21/2015 07:17 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
>> @@ -2106,7 +2106,7 @@ static struct event_constraint *
>> intel_get_event_constraints(struct cpu_hw_events *cpuc, int idx,
>> struct perf_event *event)
>> {
>> - struct event_constraint *c1 = event->hw.constraint;
>> + struct event_constraint *c1 = cpuc->event_constraint[idx];
>> struct event_constraint *c2;
>
> Hey Peter,
>
> I was chasing a memory corruption in this area and I think I found
> a possible culprit:
>
> After this patch, In the code above, we'd access "cpuc->event_constraint[idx]"
> and read/change memory.
>
> The problem is that a valid value for idx is also -1, which isn't checked
> here, so we end up accessing and possibly corrupting memory that isn't ours.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Sasha
>
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