From: tip-bot for Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
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Subject: [tip:perf/urgent] perf: Don't call release_callchain_buffers() if allocation fails
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:07:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <tip-fd45c15f13e754f3c106427e857310f3e0813951@git.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1327021966-27688-1-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Commit-ID: fd45c15f13e754f3c106427e857310f3e0813951
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/fd45c15f13e754f3c106427e857310f3e0813951
Author: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
AuthorDate: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:12:45 +0900
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CommitDate: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:33:41 +0100
perf: Don't call release_callchain_buffers() if allocation fails
When alloc_callchain_buffers() fails, it frees all of
entries before return. In addition, calling the
release_callchain_buffers() will cause a NULL pointer
dereference since callchain_cpu_entries is not set.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1327021966-27688-1-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
kernel/events/callchain.c | 2 --
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/events/callchain.c b/kernel/events/callchain.c
index 057e24b..6581a04 100644
--- a/kernel/events/callchain.c
+++ b/kernel/events/callchain.c
@@ -115,8 +115,6 @@ int get_callchain_buffers(void)
}
err = alloc_callchain_buffers();
- if (err)
- release_callchain_buffers();
exit:
mutex_unlock(&callchain_mutex);
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-22 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-20 1:12 [PATCH 1/2] perf: Don't call release_callchain_buffers if alloc fails Namhyung Kim
2012-01-20 1:12 ` [PATCH 2/2] perf: Call perf_cgroup_event_time directly Namhyung Kim
2012-01-22 21:08 ` [tip:perf/urgent] perf: Call perf_cgroup_event_time() directly tip-bot for Namhyung Kim
2012-01-20 3:59 ` [PATCH 1/2] perf: Don't call release_callchain_buffers if alloc fails Frederic Weisbecker
2012-01-22 21:07 ` tip-bot for Namhyung Kim [this message]
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