[CVE-2011-2918] perf: Fix software event overflow

Andy Whitcroft apw at canonical.com
Fri Aug 26 08:59:34 UTC 2011


CVE-2011-2918
	Under certain circumstances software event overflows go wrong and
	deadlock. Avoid trying to delete a timer from the timer callback.

The fix for this has hit P, oneiric, and lucid via mainline and stable.
Following this email are patches for natty, natty/ti-omap4, maverick,
maverick/ti-omap4, and lucid/fsl-imx51.  They are simple backports from
the stable updates.

Proposing for natty, natty/ti-omap4, maverick, maverick/ti-omap4, and
lucid/fsl-imx51.

-apw




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