From 3adaebd69557615c1bf0365ce5e32d93ac7d82af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 12:09:29 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] perf, x86: Fix silly bug in data store buffer allocation Fix up the ds allocation error path, where we could free @buffer before we used it. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: eranian@google.com Cc: robert.richter@amd.com Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com LKML-Reference: <20100305154128.813452402@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c index 72453ac5fb7d..a67fff14475e 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c @@ -127,10 +127,8 @@ static int reserve_ds_buffers(void) err = -ENOMEM; ds = kzalloc(sizeof(*ds), GFP_KERNEL); - if (unlikely(!ds)) { - kfree(buffer); + if (unlikely(!ds)) break; - } per_cpu(cpu_hw_events, cpu).ds = ds; if (x86_pmu.bts) {