[PATCH 3.16 290/306] perf: Do not double free

Ben Hutchings
2017-02-16T00:15:12Z

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

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 <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: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
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();