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Commit 16a2164b authored by Hugh Dickins's avatar Hugh Dickins Committed by Linus Torvalds
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profile: fix stats and data leakage



If the kernel is large or the profiling step small, /proc/profile
leaks data and readprofile shows silly stats, until readprofile -r
has reset the buffer: clear the prof_buffer when it is vmalloc()ed.

Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent bfcc6e2e
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