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From: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org, mingo@elte.hu, paulus@samba.org,
	davem@davemloft.net, fweisbec@gmail.com,
	perfmon2-devel@lists.sf.net, eranian@gmail.com,
	eranian@google.com, robert.richter@amd.com
Subject: [PATCH] perf_events: fix NULL point in free_event()
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:36:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4c8e3766.991ce30a.32cd.fffff5f0@mx.google.com> (raw)

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.

free_event() may be called, on the error path, before
event->ctx is set.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>

diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index f29b525..a7d5e7a 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -2150,7 +2150,8 @@ static void free_event(struct perf_event *event)
 	if (event->destroy)
 		event->destroy(event);
 
-	put_ctx(event->ctx);
+	if (event->ctx)
+		put_ctx(event->ctx);
 	call_rcu(&event->rcu_head, free_event_rcu);
 }
 

             reply	other threads:[~2010-09-13 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-13 14:36 Stephane Eranian [this message]
2010-09-13 14:55 ` [PATCH] perf_events: fix NULL point in free_event() Peter Zijlstra

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