From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@xxxxxxx>
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This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release.
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/paulg/longterm-queue-2.6.34.git
If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment.
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commit 83e03b3fe4daffdebbb42151d5410d730ae50bd1 upstream.
On the failure path, stat->start and stat->pages will refer same page.
So it'll attempt to free the same page again and get kernel panic.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1364820385-32027-1-git-send-email-namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
index 7dd746cc86ff..337f928749c7 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -480,7 +480,6 @@ int ftrace_profile_pages_init(struct ftrace_profile_stat *stat)
free_page(tmp);
}
- free_page((unsigned long)stat->pages);
stat->pages = NULL;
stat->start = NULL;
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1.8.5.2
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