Re: [PATCH] perf: protect group_leader from races that cause ctx

From: Kees Cook
Date: Mon Jan 09 2017 - 18:17:08 EST


On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 8:29 AM, John Dias <joaodias@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> John, are you able to test this solution? IIUC, you've got a reproducer handy?
>
> Yes, I tested against two reproducers. Both were fixed by this solution.

Great! Thanks for testing this.

> Thanks to Kees and Peter for your patience on this.

Peter, can you push your patch into the tree with the adjusted
Reported-by and Cc: stable (and maybe add Tested-by from John)?

Thanks again for working on it!

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Nexus Security