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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:13:56 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] perf: Fix task_struct reference leak
sys_perf_event_open() had an imbalance in the number of task refs it
took causing memory leakage
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # .37+
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
kernel/perf_event.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index 261690923ffb..27960f114efd 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -6531,6 +6531,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
goto err_alloc;
}
+ if (task) {
+ put_task_struct(task);
+ task = NULL;
+ }
+
/*
* Look up the group leader (we will attach this event to it):
*/
--
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