On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 07:40:51PM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Commit 927c7a9e92c4 ( perf: Fix race in callchains ) introduced a
> mismatch in the sizing of struct callchain_cpus_entries.
> 
> nr_cpu_ids must be used instead of num_possible_cpus(), or we might get
> out of bound memory accesses on some machines.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
> CC: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
> CC: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
> CC: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
> CC: David Miller <[email protected]>
> CC: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
> CC: [email protected]

Good catch, thanks!

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