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| author | Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]> | 2016-03-21 10:02:42 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> | 2016-03-31 09:54:07 +0200 |
| commit | 201c2f85bd0bc13b712d9c0b3d11251b182e06ae (patch) | |
| tree | f6cee3978f4e8cc0da26f9272cd483d815d1d404 | |
| parent | 8fdc65391c6ad16461526a685f03262b3b01bfde (diff) | |
perf/core: Don't leak event in the syscall error path
In the error path, event_file not being NULL is used to determine
whether the event itself still needs to be free'd, so fix it up to
avoid leaking.
Reported-by: Leon Yu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[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: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Vince Weaver <[email protected]>
Fixes: 130056275ade ("perf: Do not double free")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/events/core.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index 8c11388e92a5..52bedc5a5aaa 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -8542,6 +8542,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open, f_flags); if (IS_ERR(event_file)) { err = PTR_ERR(event_file); + event_file = NULL; goto err_context; } |