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

[Tim Gardner]

On 08/26/2011 02:59 AM, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> 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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