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authorJan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>2010-07-06 11:09:00 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-08-02 10:29:20 -0700
commit0c7066ca14c6ac8986510ba5bd946b0b50373d84 (patch)
tree060674387285a9a73bc4589bdd4fbd6ffc39f76e /kernel
parentcbed49406bb192d2d87a8a88c757f0bfaddb59de (diff)
fix mis-applied upstream commit ac9721f3f54b27a16c7e1afb2481e7ee95a70318
For some reason one of the changes to sys_perf_event_open() got mis-applied, thus breaking (at least) error handling paths (pointed out by means of a compiler warning). Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/perf_event.c18
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index a2446518c9ce..2357b19b2451 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -4870,6 +4870,15 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
if (event_fd < 0)
return event_fd;
+ /*
+ * Get the target context (task or percpu):
+ */
+ ctx = find_get_context(pid, cpu);
+ if (IS_ERR(ctx)) {
+ err = PTR_ERR(ctx);
+ goto err_fd;
+ }
+
if (group_fd != -1) {
group_leader = perf_fget_light(group_fd, &fput_needed);
if (IS_ERR(group_leader)) {
@@ -4884,15 +4893,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
}
/*
- * Get the target context (task or percpu):
- */
- ctx = find_get_context(pid, cpu);
- if (IS_ERR(ctx)) {
- err = PTR_ERR(ctx);
- goto err_fd;
- }
-
- /*
* Look up the group leader (we will attach this event to it):
*/
if (group_leader) {