From 048c852051d2bd5da54a4488bc1f16b0fc74c695 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 10:11:35 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] perf: Fix resource leak in failure path of perf_event_open() perf_event_open() kfrees event after init failure which doesn't release all resources allocated by perf_event_alloc(). Use free_event() instead. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: LKML-Reference: <4BDBE237.1040809@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/perf_event.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c index 2f3fbf84215a..3d1552d3c12b 100644 --- a/kernel/perf_event.c +++ b/kernel/perf_event.c @@ -4897,7 +4897,7 @@ err_fput_free_put_context: err_free_put_context: if (err < 0) - kfree(event); + free_event(event); err_put_context: if (err < 0) -- 2.39.5