perfcounters: fix refcounting bug
don't kfree in use counters.
Running...
while true; do perfstat -e 1 -c true; done
...on all cores for a while doesn't seem to be eating ram, and my oops
is gone.
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/kernel/perf_counter.c b/kernel/perf_counter.c
index 1ac18da..f27a7e9 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_counter.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_counter.c
@@ -1934,7 +1934,8 @@
}
}
- kfree(child_counter);
+ if (!child_counter->filp || !atomic_long_read(&child_counter->filp->f_count))
+ kfree(child_counter);
}
/*