[Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH 2/2] Cell OProfile: SPU mutex lock fix, version 4
Arnd Bergmann
arnd at arndb.de
Fri Aug 8 23:26:20 EST 2008
On Friday 01 August 2008, Carl Love wrote:
> 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 at us.ibm.com>
>
vfree(NULL) is defined to be legal, so you don't need to check the
argument for being non-NULL, just set it to NULL after the free.
Arnd <><
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