From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 17:45:41 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: perf: Do not double free
X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~176^2~4^2~49^2~18
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3c1a5d344e9721bed684382aab375ca5a143ef92;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git

perf: Do not double free

commit 130056275ade730e7a79c110212c8815202773ee upstream.

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 <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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 <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index faf2067fc8e2..060c66ea61b6 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -8583,7 +8583,12 @@ 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: