Re: CVE request -- kernel: perf: fix software event overflow

[Eugene Teo <eugene () redhat com>]

On 08/15/2011 09:43 PM, Petr Matousek wrote:
> Hello Steve, vendors.
>
> Description:
> Under certain circumstances software event overflows go wrong and
> deadlock. Avoid trying to delete a timer from the timer callback.
>
> References:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730706
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/27/337 (reproducer)
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/28/284 (fix)
>
> Upstream fix:
> a8b0ca17b80e92faab46ee7179ba9e99ccb61233 (much larger patch that
> contains the hunk referenced above)

Use CVE-2011-2918.

Thanks, Eugene