Merge branch 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/p…

…ub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf_counter: Fix buffer overflow in perf_copy_attr()
torvalds · Sep 15, 2009 · f199fd9 · f199fd9
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diff --git a/kernel/perf_counter.c b/kernel/perf_counter.c
@@ -4215,6 +4215,7 @@ static int perf_copy_attr(struct perf_counter_attr __user *uattr,
 			if (val)
 				goto err_size;
 		}
+		size = sizeof(*attr);
 	}
 
 	ret = copy_from_user(attr, uattr, size);