Currently it looks like find_lively_task_by_vpid() takes a task ref and relies on find_get_context() to drop it. The problem is that perf_event_create_kernel_counter() shouldn't be dropping task refs. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Matt Helsley --- kernel/perf_event.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/kernel/perf_event.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/perf_event.c +++ linux-2.6/kernel/perf_event.c @@ -2124,11 +2124,9 @@ find_get_context(struct pmu *pmu, struct } } - put_task_struct(task); return ctx; errout: - put_task_struct(task); return ERR_PTR(err); } @@ -5536,7 +5534,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open, ctx = find_get_context(pmu, task, cpu); if (IS_ERR(ctx)) { err = PTR_ERR(ctx); - goto err_group_fd; + goto err_task; } /* @@ -5632,6 +5630,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open, err_context: put_ctx(ctx); +err_task: + if (task) + put_task_struct(task); err_group_fd: fput_light(group_file, fput_needed); free_event(event); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/