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Commit b3e62e35 authored by Xiao Guangrong's avatar Xiao Guangrong Committed by Ingo Molnar
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perf_counter: Fix buffer overflow in perf_copy_attr()



If we pass a big size data over perf_counter_open() syscall,
the kernel will copy this data to a small buffer, it will
cause kernel crash.

This bug makes the kernel unsafe and non-root local user can
trigger it.

Signed-off-by: default avatarXiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4AAF37D4.5010706@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 74fca6a4
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