Commit-ID: 059fcd8cd16622da6513804a7a3e826d152c6c96 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/059fcd8cd16622da6513804a7a3e826d152c6c96 Author: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> AuthorDate: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 20:11:34 +0000 Committer: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> CommitDate: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:37:30 +0100
perf/core: Plug potential memory leak in CPU_UP_PREPARE If CPU_UP_PREPARE is called it is not guaranteed, that a previously allocated and assigned hash has been freed already, but perf_event_init_cpu() unconditionally allocates and assignes a new hash if the swhash is referenced. By overwriting the pointer the existing hash is not longer accessible. Verify that there is no hash assigned on this cpu before allocating and assigning a new one. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> Cc: Vince Weaver <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> --- kernel/events/core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index 4aa64a8..0d58522 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -9206,7 +9206,7 @@ static void perf_event_init_cpu(int cpu) struct swevent_htable *swhash = &per_cpu(swevent_htable, cpu); mutex_lock(&swhash->hlist_mutex); - if (swhash->hlist_refcount > 0) { + if (swhash->hlist_refcount > 0 && !swevent_hlist_deref(swhash)) { struct swevent_hlist *hlist; hlist = kzalloc_node(sizeof(*hlist), GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(cpu));
