[Cbe-oss-dev] powerpc/cell/oprofile: avoid double free of profile buffer
Robert Richter
robert.richter at amd.com
Tue Aug 19 21:53:18 EST 2008
On 11.08.08 09:25:43, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Carl Love <cel at us.ibm.com>
>
> 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>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
Acked-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter at amd.com>
-Robert
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