3.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Jiri Olsa <jo...@kernel.org> 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 <jo...@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shish...@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <a...@firstfloor.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhy...@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eran...@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> Cc: syzkaller-b...@googlegroups.com Cc: x...@kernel.org Fixes: 60e2364e60e8 ("perf: Add ability to sample machine state on interrupt") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180415092352.12403-1-jo...@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- 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: