From 048c852051d2bd5da54a4488bc1f16b0fc74c695 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 10:11:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] perf: Fix resource leak in failure path of perf_event_open()

perf_event_open() kfrees event after init failure which doesn't
release all resources allocated by perf_event_alloc().  Use
free_event() instead.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4BDBE237.1040809@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
 kernel/perf_event.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index 2f3fbf84215a..3d1552d3c12b 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -4897,7 +4897,7 @@ err_fput_free_put_context:
 
 err_free_put_context:
 	if (err < 0)
-		kfree(event);
+		free_event(event);
 
 err_put_context:
 	if (err < 0)