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Commit 6c72e350 authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Linus Torvalds
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perf: fix perf bug in fork()



Oleg noticed that a cleanup by Sylvain actually uncovered a bug; by
calling perf_event_free_task() when failing sched_fork() we will not yet
have done the memset() on ->perf_event_ctxp[] and will therefore try and
'free' the inherited contexts, which are still in use by the parent
process.  This is bad..

Suggested-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reported-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reported-by: default avatarSylvain 'ythier' Hitier <sylvain.hitier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent cba5b1c6
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