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From:   Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 7 Nov 2019 09:06:43 -0300
To:     Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc:     Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
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        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
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        Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] perf tests: Fix out of bounds memory access
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Em Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 06:20:29PM +0800, Leo Yan escreveu:
> On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 10:42:26AM +0100, Jiri Olsa wrote:
 
> [...]
 
> > > To fix this issue, we will use evlist__open() and evlist__close() pair
> > > functions to prepare and cleanup context for evlist; so 'evsel->id' and
> > > 'evsel->ids' can be initialized properly when invoke do_test() and avoid
> > > the out of bounds memory access.
 
> > right, we need to solve this on libperf level, so it's possible
> > to call mmap/munmap multiple time without close/open.. I'll try
> > to send something, but meanwhile this is good workaround
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
 
> Thanks for reviewing, Jiri.
 
> You are welcome to send us the fixing patches, I am glad to test it on
> qemu_arm.

Thanks, applied after adding:

Fixes: ee74701ed8ad ("perf tests: Add test to check backward ring buffer")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.10+

Please consider doing it next time,

- Arnaldo