perf_events: Fix invalid pointer when pid is invalid
authorStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Mon, 4 Oct 2010 10:00:02 +0000 (12:00 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Mon, 4 Oct 2010 10:47:20 +0000 (12:47 +0200)
commit540804b5c52065a87d826f7714b18a3ec0b269f9
tree71144b372d615c9c188860f9eaea062bdb8cb1c5
parentd6dad199a10423ce37b8bfec1f055c380dc4a3d5
perf_events: Fix invalid pointer when pid is invalid

This patch fixes an error in perf_event_open() when the pid
provided by the user is invalid. find_lively_task_by_vpid()
does not return NULL on error but an error code. Without the
fix the error code was silently passed to find_get_context()
which would eventually cause a invalid pointer dereference.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: perfmon2-devel@lists.sf.net
Cc: eranian@gmail.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
LKML-Reference: <4ca9a5d1.e8e9d80a.3dbb.ffff8f2e@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
kernel/perf_event.c