From: Alexander Levin <alexander.le...@verizon.com> If we failed to acquire task's cred_guard_mutex we shouldn't proceed to release it in the error path.
Fixes: a63fbed776c ("perf/tracing/cpuhotplug: Fix locking order") Signed-off-by: Alexander Levin <alexander.le...@verizon.com> --- 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 8d6acaeeea17..8e8323c6036b 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -9878,7 +9878,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open, if (task) { err = mutex_lock_interruptible(&task->signal->cred_guard_mutex); if (err) - goto err_cred; + goto err_task; /* * Reuse ptrace permission checks for now. -- 2.11.0