From fd45c15f13e754f3c106427e857310f3e0813951 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Namhyung Kim
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:12:45 +0900
Subject: perf: Don't call release_callchain_buffers() if allocation fails

When alloc_callchain_buffers() fails, it frees all of
entries before return. In addition, calling the
release_callchain_buffers() will cause a NULL pointer
dereference since callchain_cpu_entries is not set.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1327021966-27688-1-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
 kernel/events/callchain.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'kernel/events')

diff --git a/kernel/events/callchain.c b/kernel/events/callchain.c
index 057e24b665cf..6581a040f399 100644
--- a/kernel/events/callchain.c
+++ b/kernel/events/callchain.c
@@ -115,8 +115,6 @@ int get_callchain_buffers(void)
 	}
 
 	err = alloc_callchain_buffers();
-	if (err)
-		release_callchain_buffers();
 exit:
 	mutex_unlock(&callchain_mutex);
 
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