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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2014-05-05 19:12:20 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2014-05-07 11:33:15 +0200
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perf: Fix perf_event_init_context()
perf_pin_task_context() can return NULL but perf_event_init_context() assumes it will not, correct this. Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140505171428.GU26782@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/events/core.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index ea899e2..7123284 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -7729,6 +7729,8 @@ int perf_event_init_context(struct task_struct *child, int ctxn)
* swapped under us.
*/
parent_ctx = perf_pin_task_context(parent, ctxn);
+ if (!parent_ctx)
+ return 0;
/*
* No need to check if parent_ctx != NULL here; since we saw
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