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Xiao Guangrong committed b3e62e35058
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: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <4AAF37D4.5010706@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>