4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de
[ 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@nokia.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- 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; }