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Message-ID: <tip-2fb750e825b5347de0390315f4284f13709a9856@git.kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 07:04:44 GMT
From: tip-bot for Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
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Subject: [tip:perf/urgent] perf-record: Check correct pid when forking
Commit-ID: 2fb750e825b5347de0390315f4284f13709a9856
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/2fb750e825b5347de0390315f4284f13709a9856
Author: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
AuthorDate: Mon, 31 May 2010 23:18:18 +0200
Committer: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
CommitDate: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 00:57:14 +0200
perf-record: Check correct pid when forking
When forking the child to be traced, we should check the correct
return value from fork() and not a local variable which is otherwise
unused.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@...il.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100531211818.GA30175@...ndog.tnic>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
---
tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 3 +--
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index 9bc8905..dc3435e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -503,7 +503,6 @@ static int __cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv)
{
int i, counter;
struct stat st;
- pid_t pid = 0;
int flags;
int err;
unsigned long waking = 0;
@@ -572,7 +571,7 @@ static int __cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv)
if (forks) {
child_pid = fork();
- if (pid < 0) {
+ if (child_pid < 0) {
perror("failed to fork");
exit(-1);
}
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