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authorPeter Zijlstra <[email protected]>2016-02-24 18:45:41 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <[email protected]>2016-02-25 08:42:32 +0100
commit130056275ade730e7a79c110212c8815202773ee (patch)
treee2c2de52862128746c759e6b8534428ed013b5ac
parent84c4e620d35f49f486a900af214ad12276afb386 (diff)
perf: Do not double free
In case of: err_file: fput(event_file), we'll end up calling perf_release() which in turn will free the event. Do not then free the event _again_. Tested-by: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
-rw-r--r--kernel/events/core.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index d7b0316e3465..211a5ce64e3f 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -8520,7 +8520,12 @@ err_context:
perf_unpin_context(ctx);
put_ctx(ctx);
err_alloc:
- free_event(event);
+ /*
+ * If event_file is set, the fput() above will have called ->release()
+ * and that will take care of freeing the event.
+ */
+ if (!event_file)
+ free_event(event);
err_cpus:
put_online_cpus();
err_task: