arm64: perf: fix event validation for software group leaders
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:47:40 +0000 (11:47 +0100)
committerMark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
Wed, 14 May 2014 11:15:40 +0000 (12:15 +0100)
commit4281a11a7e44655baa41241c470b09d4fae4be35
tree500cdea6edf7aa2d511f5213213b79dcdec5a874
parent741dff38f169e49d8731e7362569fe4b1f9482de
arm64: perf: fix event validation for software group leaders

commit ee7538a008a45050c8f706d38b600f55953169f9 upstream.

This is a port of c95eb3184ea1 ("ARM: 7809/1: perf: fix event validation
for software group leaders") to arm64, which fixes a panic in the arm64
perf backend found as a result of Vince's fuzzing tool.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit 6c6f6c7166e9ee45e545eab850a2862a92c135b2)
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c