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diff --git a/app-forensics/honggfuzz/files/honggfuzz-0.8-bts-perms.patch b/app-forensics/honggfuzz/files/honggfuzz-0.8-bts-perms.patch
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index 000000000000..e8ac4919e208
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-forensics/honggfuzz/files/honggfuzz-0.8-bts-perms.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+Workaround --linux_perf_bts_block flag breakage.
+
+Mateusz reports that running honggfuzz fails as:
+ [2016-11-11T21:54:27+0000][W][1190] arch_perfOpen():223 mmap(mmapAuxBuf) failed,
+ try increasing the kernel.perf_event_mlock_kb sysctl (up to even 300000000): Cannot allocate memory
+
+It seems aux data also needs WRITE permissions.
+
+Reported-by: Mateusz Lenik
+diff --git a/linux/perf.c b/linux/perf.c
+index d8ede5f..2f71b3d 100644
+--- a/linux/perf.c
++++ b/linux/perf.c
+@@ -217,3 +217,4 @@ static bool arch_perfOpen(honggfuzz_t * hfuzz, fuzzer_t * fuzzer UNUSED, pid_t p
+ fuzzer->linux.perfMmapAux =
+- mmap(NULL, pem->aux_size, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, *perfFd, pem->aux_offset);
++ mmap(NULL, pem->aux_size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, *perfFd, pem->aux_offset);
++
+ if (fuzzer->linux.perfMmapAux == MAP_FAILED) {