From 130056275ade730e7a79c110212c8815202773ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 18:45:41 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] perf: Do not double free In case of: err_file: fput(event_file), we'll end up calling perf_release() which in turn will free the event. Do not then free the event _again_. Tested-by: Alexander Shishkin Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: dvyukov@google.com Cc: eranian@google.com Cc: oleg@redhat.com Cc: panand@redhat.com Cc: sasha.levin@oracle.com Cc: vince@deater.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160224174947.697350349@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/events/core.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index d7b0316e3465..211a5ce64e3f 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -8520,7 +8520,12 @@ err_context: perf_unpin_context(ctx); put_ctx(ctx); err_alloc: - free_event(event); + /* + * If event_file is set, the fput() above will have called ->release() + * and that will take care of freeing the event. + */ + if (!event_file) + free_event(event); err_cpus: put_online_cpus(); err_task: -- 2.20.1