Re: [PATCH, v5.4] perf: Correctly handle failed perf_get_aux_event()

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 07:05:29PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
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> * Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > On Mon, 6 Jan 2020, Vince Weaver wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, 6 Jan 2020, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 02:22:47PM -0500, Vince Weaver wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, 2 Jan 2020, Vince Weaver wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > Vince, does the below (untested) patch work for you?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > yes, this patch fixes things for me.
> > > 
> > > Tested-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > 
> > is this patch going to make it upstream?  It's a fairly major correctness 
> > bug with perf_event_open().
> 
> I just sent it to Linus.
> 
> In hindsight this should have been marked Cc: stable for v5.4 - we should 
> forward it to Greg once Linus has pulled it:
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>    da9ec3d3dd0f: ("perf: Correctly handle failed perf_get_aux_event()")
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> 
> Note that in the v5.4 cherry-pick there's a conflict due to interaction 
> with another recent commit - I've attached the ported fix against v5.4, 
> but have only test built it.

Thanks for the backport, now queued up.

greg k-h