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authorStephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>2006-08-26 01:00:19 +0400
committerTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>2006-09-08 21:59:14 +0400
commitb8444d00762703e1b6146fce12ce2684885f8bf6 (patch)
treeea29e11313f63d9cc6aea0c2fd0179e9e3184a2a /arch
parente9f7bee1df223dcf83743b46cb06c08d95497ec0 (diff)
downloadlinux-b8444d00762703e1b6146fce12ce2684885f8bf6.tar.xz
[IA64] correct file descriptor reference counting in perfmon
Fix a bug in sys_perfmonctl() whereby it was not correctly decrementing the file descriptor reference count. Signed-off-by: stephane eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c
index c7ccd6ee1ddf..84a7e52f56f6 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c
@@ -4936,13 +4936,15 @@ abort_locked:
if (likely(ctx)) {
DPRINT(("context unlocked\n"));
UNPROTECT_CTX(ctx, flags);
- fput(file);
}
/* copy argument back to user, if needed */
if (call_made && PFM_CMD_RW_ARG(cmd) && copy_to_user(arg, args_k, base_sz*count)) ret = -EFAULT;
error_args:
+ if (file)
+ fput(file);
+
kfree(args_k);
DPRINT(("cmd=%s ret=%ld\n", PFM_CMD_NAME(cmd), ret));