About perf,arm -- oops in validate_event

[P J P]

  Hello,

 -> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/7/259

I wanted to confirm if this above fix should also go into ARM64 build Or is 
ARM64 platform not vulnerable?

===
$ git diff
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c
index 9ba33c4..cbed82f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -317,6 +317,9 @@ validate_event(struct pmu_hw_events *hw_events,
        struct hw_perf_event fake_event = event->hw;
        struct pmu *leader_pmu = event->group_leader->pmu;

+    if (is_software_event(event))
+        return 1;
+
        if (event->pmu != leader_pmu || event->state <= PERF_EVENT_STATE_OFF)
                return 1;
===


Thank you.
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