3.16.40-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> commit 130056275ade730e7a79c110212c8815202773ee upstream. 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]> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> --- kernel/events/core.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -7603,7 +7603,12 @@ 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:
