Commit fd1edb3a authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Ingo Molnar

perf: Fix task_struct reference leak

sys_perf_event_open() had an imbalance in the number of task refs it
took causing memory leakage

Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # .37+
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent ab711fe0
......@@ -6531,6 +6531,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
goto err_alloc;
}
if (task) {
put_task_struct(task);
task = NULL;
}
/*
* Look up the group leader (we will attach this event to it):
*/
......
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