4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 7ad1437d6ace0e450a6c1167720608ad660b191d ]
A recent commit introduced an extra merge_attr() call in the skylake
branch, which causes a memory leak.
Store the pointer to the extra allocated memory and free it at the end of
the function.
Fixes: a5df70c354c2 ("perf/x86: Only show format attributes when supported")
Reported-by: Tommi Rantala <tommi.t.rantala@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/events/intel/core.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c
@@ -3847,6 +3847,8 @@ static struct attribute *intel_pmu_attrs
__init int intel_pmu_init(void)
{
+ struct attribute **extra_attr = NULL;
+ struct attribute **to_free = NULL;
union cpuid10_edx edx;
union cpuid10_eax eax;
union cpuid10_ebx ebx;
@@ -3854,7 +3856,6 @@ __init int intel_pmu_init(void)
unsigned int unused;
struct extra_reg *er;
int version, i;
- struct attribute **extra_attr = NULL;
char *name;
if (!cpu_has(&boot_cpu_data, X86_FEATURE_ARCH_PERFMON)) {
@@ -4294,6 +4295,7 @@ __init int intel_pmu_init(void)
extra_attr = boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_RTM) ?
hsw_format_attr : nhm_format_attr;
extra_attr = merge_attr(extra_attr, skl_format_attr);
+ to_free = extra_attr;
x86_pmu.cpu_events = get_hsw_events_attrs();
intel_pmu_pebs_data_source_skl(
boot_cpu_data.x86_model == INTEL_FAM6_SKYLAKE_X);
@@ -4401,6 +4403,7 @@ __init int intel_pmu_init(void)
pr_cont("full-width counters, ");
}
+ kfree(to_free);
return 0;
}