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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2010-05-01 04:11:35 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-05-01 07:11:25 -0400
commit048c852051d2bd5da54a4488bc1f16b0fc74c695 (patch)
treec1482ae433455c1aa5f2f20c68773f79b60881c8 /kernel
parent66f41d4c5c8a5deed66fdcc84509376c9a0bf9d8 (diff)
perf: Fix resource leak in failure path of perf_event_open()
perf_event_open() kfrees event after init failure which doesn't release all resources allocated by perf_event_alloc(). Use free_event() instead. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <4BDBE237.1040809@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/perf_event.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index 2f3fbf84215a..3d1552d3c12b 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -4897,7 +4897,7 @@ err_fput_free_put_context:
4897 4897
4898err_free_put_context: 4898err_free_put_context:
4899 if (err < 0) 4899 if (err < 0)
4900 kfree(event); 4900 free_event(event);
4901 4901
4902err_put_context: 4902err_put_context:
4903 if (err < 0) 4903 if (err < 0)