From 16a2164bb03612efe79a76c73da6da44445b9287 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hugh Dickins Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 19:44:10 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] profile: fix stats and data leakage If the kernel is large or the profiling step small, /proc/profile leaks data and readprofile shows silly stats, until readprofile -r has reset the buffer: clear the prof_buffer when it is vmalloc()ed. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/profile.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/profile.c b/kernel/profile.c index a55d3a367ae8..dfadc5b729f1 100644 --- a/kernel/profile.c +++ b/kernel/profile.c @@ -127,8 +127,10 @@ int __ref profile_init(void) return 0; prof_buffer = vmalloc(buffer_bytes); - if (prof_buffer) + if (prof_buffer) { + memset(prof_buffer, 0, buffer_bytes); return 0; + } free_cpumask_var(prof_cpu_mask); return -ENOMEM; -- 2.20.1