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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2016-03-24 11:14:51 +0000
committerSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>2016-03-24 08:40:21 -0400
commit5709e7ba03717ab760b5ad6ebcf4a9e2f633dcc4 (patch)
treeaa433c9dcc5ed1d9b7050979ff5b27c7c59db8b8 /kernel
parent143cf26c48278bd438a97a8bd3e18b6460192981 (diff)
perf: Do not double free
[ Upstream commit 130056275ade730e7a79c110212c8815202773ee ] 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 <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: dvyukov@google.com Cc: eranian@google.com Cc: oleg@redhat.com Cc: panand@redhat.com Cc: sasha.levin@oracle.com Cc: vince@deater.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160224174947.697350349@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-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 e1af58e23bee..992b16aac559 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -8221,7 +8221,12 @@ 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: