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authorPaul Mackerras2009-02-11 13:53:19 +0100
committerIngo Molnar2009-02-11 14:08:44 +0100
commit4bcf349a0f90d1e69eb35c6df0fa285c886c1cd6 (patch)
tree11d4d39799d72e9d3de0e6b6546f5055479f3136 /kernel/perf_counter.c
parentperfcounters: fix use after free in perf_release() (diff)
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perfcounters: fix refcounting bug, take 2
Only free child_counter if it has a parent; if it doesn't, then it has a file pointing to it and we'll free it in perf_release. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/perf_counter.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/perf_counter.c9
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/perf_counter.c b/kernel/perf_counter.c
index e0576c3fdb50..fcefb0a726f3 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_counter.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_counter.c
@@ -1958,14 +1958,13 @@ __perf_counter_exit_task(struct task_struct *child,
sync_child_counter(child_counter, parent_counter);
list_for_each_entry_safe(sub, tmp, &child_counter->sibling_list,
list_entry) {
- if (sub->parent)
+ if (sub->parent) {
sync_child_counter(sub, sub->parent);
- kfree(sub);
+ kfree(sub);
+ }
}
- }
-
- if (!child_counter->filp || !atomic_long_read(&child_counter->filp->f_count))
kfree(child_counter);
+ }
}
/*