From ef0c64308b5dfa779b0c22508ad755abe49938ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 10:11:35 +0200 Subject: perf: Fix resource leak in failure path of perf_event_open() commit 048c852051d2bd5da54a4488bc1f16b0fc74c695 upstream. perf_event_open() kfrees event after init failure which doesn't release all resources allocated by perf_event_alloc(). Use free_event() instead. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo LKML-Reference: <4BDBE237.1040809@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/perf_event.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c index 447e8db3e4ed..72df1eb48282 100644 --- a/kernel/perf_event.c +++ b/kernel/perf_event.c @@ -4609,7 +4609,7 @@ err_fput_free_put_context: err_free_put_context: if (err < 0) - kfree(event); + free_event(event); err_put_context: if (err < 0) -- cgit v1.2.3