From: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd•com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb•de>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba•org>,
oprofile-list@lists•sourceforge.net, cel <cel@linux•vnet.ibm.com>,
cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: powerpc/cell/oprofile: avoid double free of profile buffer
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:53:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080819115317.GD1488@erda.amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200808110925.44243.arnd@arndb.de>
On 11.08.08 09:25:43, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Carl Love <cel@us•ibm.com>
>
> If an error occurs on opcontrol start, the event and per cpu buffers
> are released. If later opcontrol shutdown is called then the free
> function will be called again to free buffers that no longer
> exist. This results in a kernel oops. The following changes
> prevent the call to delete buffers that don't exist.
>
> Signed-off-by: Carl Love <carll@us•ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb•de>
Acked-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd•com>
-Robert
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Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Operating System Research Center
email: robert.richter@amd•com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-19 11:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-01 20:01 [PATCH 2/2] Cell OProfile: SPU mutex lock fix, version 4 Carl Love
2008-08-08 13:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-08 22:39 ` [PATCH 2/2] Repost " Carl Love
2008-08-09 13:13 ` please pull cell merge branch Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-10 23:17 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-08-11 7:18 ` [Cbe-oss-dev] " Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-11 7:25 ` powerpc/cell/oprofile: fix mutex locking for spu-oprofile Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-20 11:57 ` Robert Richter
2008-08-20 12:05 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-20 12:39 ` Robert Richter
2008-08-20 14:58 ` Carl Love
2008-08-20 12:39 ` Robert Richter
2008-08-20 13:19 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-21 4:21 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-08-21 8:14 ` [Cbe-oss-dev] " Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-21 10:20 ` Michael Ellerman
2008-08-21 14:58 ` Carl Love
2008-08-25 6:31 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-08-25 7:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-10-13 14:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-10-13 15:13 ` Robert Richter
2008-08-11 7:25 ` powerpc/cell/oprofile: avoid double free of profile buffer Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-19 11:53 ` Robert Richter [this message]
2008-08-11 15:34 ` [Cbe-oss-dev] please pull cell merge branch Carl Love
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