Patch "perf scripting: Avoid leaking the scripting_context variable" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    perf scripting: Avoid leaking the scripting_context variable

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     perf-scripting-avoid-leaking-the-scripting_context-variable.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From cf346d5bd4b9d61656df2f72565c9b354ef3ca0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 17:20:47 -0300
Subject: perf scripting: Avoid leaking the scripting_context variable

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

commit cf346d5bd4b9d61656df2f72565c9b354ef3ca0d upstream.

Both register_perl_scripting() and register_python_scripting() allocate
this variable, fix it by checking if it already was.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Fixes: 7e4b21b84c43 ("perf/scripts: Add Python scripting engine")
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 tools/perf/util/trace-event-scripting.c |    6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/tools/perf/util/trace-event-scripting.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/trace-event-scripting.c
@@ -95,7 +95,8 @@ static void register_python_scripting(st
 	if (err)
 		die("error registering py script extension");
 
-	scripting_context = malloc(sizeof(struct scripting_context));
+	if (scripting_context == NULL)
+		scripting_context = malloc(sizeof(*scripting_context));
 }
 
 #ifdef NO_LIBPYTHON
@@ -159,7 +160,8 @@ static void register_perl_scripting(stru
 	if (err)
 		die("error registering pl script extension");
 
-	scripting_context = malloc(sizeof(struct scripting_context));
+	if (scripting_context == NULL)
+		scripting_context = malloc(sizeof(*scripting_context));
 }
 
 #ifdef NO_LIBPERL


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from acme@redhat.com are

queue-4.4/perf-scripting-avoid-leaking-the-scripting_context-variable.patch