[v2,1/4] powerpc/perf: Rearrange memory freeing in imc init

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Tue Jun 5 00:11:01 AEST 2018


On Tue, 2018-05-22 at 09:12:34 UTC, Anju T Sudhakar wrote:
> When any of the IMC (In-Memory Collection counter) devices fail
> to initialize, imc_common_mem_free() frees set of memory. In doing so,
> pmu_ptr pointer is also freed. But pmu_ptr pointer is used in subsequent
> function (imc_common_cpuhp_mem_free()) which is wrong. Patch here reorders
> the code to avoid such access.
> 
> Also free the memory which is dynamically allocated during imc
> initialization, wherever required.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anju T Sudhakar <anju at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Series applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/cb094fa5af7c9623084aa4c3cf529b

cheers


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