From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: eranian@google.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, paulus@samba.org,
davem@davemloft.net, fweisbec@gmail.com,
perfmon2-devel@lists.sf.net, eranian@gmail.com,
robert.richter@amd.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf_events: fix NULL point in free_event()
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:55:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1284389746.2275.312.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4c8e3766.991ce30a.32cd.fffff5f0@mx.google.com>
On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 16:36 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> Without the following patch, perf top as non-root and
> paranoid cpu set causes a NULL pointer dereference in
> free_event() because event->ctx is NULL.
Yeah, its already on its way.. Cyrill also reported this.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-13 14:56 UTC|newest]
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2010-09-13 14:36 [PATCH] perf_events: fix NULL point in free_event() Stephane Eranian
2010-09-13 14:55 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
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