powerpc/cell/oprofile: Avoid double vfree of profile buffer
authorCarl Love <cel@us.ibm.com>
Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:25:43 +0000 (17:25 +1000)
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:24:46 +0000 (10:24 +1000)
If an error occurs on opcontrol start, the event and per cpu buffers
are released.  If later opcontrol shutdown is called then the free
function will be called again to free buffers that no longer
exist.  This results in a kernel oops.  The following changes
prevent the call to delete buffers that don't exist.

Signed-off-by: Carl Love <carll@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
drivers/oprofile/cpu_buffer.c
drivers/oprofile/event_buffer.c

index 2450b3a..7ba78e6 100644 (file)
@@ -38,8 +38,10 @@ void free_cpu_buffers(void)
 {
        int i;
  
-       for_each_online_cpu(i)
+       for_each_online_cpu(i) {
                vfree(per_cpu(cpu_buffer, i).buffer);
+               per_cpu(cpu_buffer, i).buffer = NULL;
+       }
 }
 
 int alloc_cpu_buffers(void)
index e7fbac5..8d692a5 100644 (file)
@@ -93,6 +93,8 @@ out:
 void free_event_buffer(void)
 {
        vfree(event_buffer);
+
+       event_buffer = NULL;
 }