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perf_events: Fix resource leak in x86 __hw_perf_event_init()
authorStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:21:01 +0000 (23:21 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 5 Jul 2010 18:11:04 +0000 (11:11 -0700)
commit 4b24a88b35e15e04bd8f2c5dda65b5dc8ebca05f upstream.

If reserve_pmc_hardware() succeeds but reserve_ds_buffers()
fails, then we need to release_pmc_hardware. It won't be done
by the destroy() callback because we return before setting it
in case of error.

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: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: perfmon2-devel@lists.sf.net
LKML-Reference: <4ba1568b.15185e0a.182a.7802@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c

index efea222b0351433b980ea42e485ecf30c5c6bc16..0ff02cae710b55bc190f3f921972bad704478aed 100644 (file)
@@ -1005,8 +1005,11 @@ static int __hw_perf_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
                if (atomic_read(&active_events) == 0) {
                        if (!reserve_pmc_hardware())
                                err = -EBUSY;
-                       else
+                       else {
                                err = reserve_bts_hardware();
+                               if (err)
+                                       release_pmc_hardware();
+                       }
                }
                if (!err)
                        atomic_inc(&active_events);