Fixes the hotcpu notifier leak and a memory leak during cqm(cache quality of service monitoring) initialization.
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Vikas Shivappa <[email protected]> --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_cqm.c | 17 ++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_cqm.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_cqm.c index e6be335..5666171 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_cqm.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_cqm.c @@ -1322,7 +1322,7 @@ static const struct x86_cpu_id intel_cqm_match[] = { static int __init intel_cqm_init(void) { - char *str, scale[20]; + char *str = NULL, scale[20]; int i, cpu, ret; if (!x86_match_cpu(intel_cqm_match)) @@ -1382,16 +1382,23 @@ static int __init intel_cqm_init(void) cqm_pick_event_reader(i); } - __perf_cpu_notifier(intel_cqm_cpu_notifier); - ret = perf_pmu_register(&intel_cqm_pmu, "intel_cqm", -1); - if (ret) + if (ret) { pr_err("Intel CQM perf registration failed: %d\n", ret); - else + goto out; + } else { pr_info("Intel CQM monitoring enabled\n"); + } + /* + * Register the hot cpu notifier once we are sure cqm + * is enabled to avoid notifier leak. + */ + __perf_cpu_notifier(intel_cqm_cpu_notifier); out: cpu_notifier_register_done(); + if (ret) + kfree(str); return ret; } -- 1.9.1
