From 6050cb0b0b366092d1383bc23d7b16cd26db00f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 02:30:59 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] perf: Fix branch stack refcount leak on callchain init failure On callchain buffers allocation failure, free_event() is called and all the accounting performed in perf_event_alloc() for that event is cancelled. But if the event has branch stack sampling, it is unaccounted as well from the branch stack sampling events refcounts. This is a bug because this accounting is performed after the callchain buffer allocation. As a result, the branch stack sampling events refcount can become negative. To fix this, move the branch stack event accounting before the callchain buffer allocation. Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Stephane Eranian Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1374539466-4799-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-format-patch failed