perf: Fix task_struct reference leak
authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:13:56 +0000 (13:13 +0200)
committerBrad Figg <brad.figg@canonical.com>
Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:40:53 +0000 (11:40 -0700)
commitd69b531c80f088364e2edece38b82c89d1cfffc9
tree00ada4aae2e2b527430eb86b2904e8d43e43af8d
parent728e2f705286be969d33143e61aef609a58c0083
perf: Fix task_struct reference leak

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/761134

commit fd1edb3aa2c1d92618d8f0c6d15d44ea41fcac6a upstream.

sys_perf_event_open() had an imbalance in the number of task refs it
took causing memory leakage

Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
kernel/perf_event.c