3.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> commit 78b562fbfa2cf0a9fcb23c3154756b690f4905c1 upstream. Return immediately when we find issue in the user stack checks. The error value could get overwritten by following check for PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_INTR. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]> Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Fixes: 60e2364e60e8 ("perf: Add ability to sample machine state on interrupt") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- kernel/events/core.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -7348,9 +7348,9 @@ static int perf_copy_attr(struct perf_ev * __u16 sample size limit. */ if (attr->sample_stack_user >= USHRT_MAX) - ret = -EINVAL; + return -EINVAL; else if (!IS_ALIGNED(attr->sample_stack_user, sizeof(u64))) - ret = -EINVAL; + return -EINVAL; } out:
