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| author | Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> | 2011-03-28 13:13:56 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2011-04-14 13:02:14 -0700 |
| commit | 80b9edca1c11ec8118ab30451af9c1d492770c90 (patch) | |
| tree | 0165dcbe6f0ace2e0547327925b0f7329e2ee4dd /kernel | |
| parent | c43194250ee8bb20e2d6d1edba9553842a21679c (diff) | |
perf: Fix task_struct reference leak
commit fd1edb3aa2c1d92618d8f0c6d15d44ea41fcac6a upstream.
sys_perf_event_open() had an imbalance in the number of task refs it
took causing memory leakage
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/perf_event.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c index f81f9d6395a..07fcc8568fa 100644 --- a/kernel/perf_event.c +++ b/kernel/perf_event.c @@ -5917,6 +5917,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open, goto err_alloc; } + if (task) { + put_task_struct(task); + task = NULL; + } + /* * Look up the group leader (we will attach this event to it): */ |