[tip:perf/pebs] perf, x86: Fix silly bug in data store buffer allocation

[tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra]

Commit-ID:  3adaebd69557615c1bf0365ce5e32d93ac7d82af
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/3adaebd69557615c1bf0365ce5e32d93ac7d82af
Author:     Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 12:09:29 +0100
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:23:34 +0100

perf, x86: Fix silly bug in data store buffer allocation

Fix up the ds allocation error path, where we could free @buffer before
we used it.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: paulus@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: eranian@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: robert.richter@xxxxxxx
Cc: fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx
LKML-Reference: <20100305154128.813452402@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c |    4 +---
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c
index 72453ac..a67fff1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c
@@ -127,10 +127,8 @@ static int reserve_ds_buffers(void)
 
 		err = -ENOMEM;
 		ds = kzalloc(sizeof(*ds), GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (unlikely(!ds)) {
-			kfree(buffer);
+		if (unlikely(!ds))
 			break;
-		}
 		per_cpu(cpu_hw_events, cpu).ds = ds;
 
 		if (x86_pmu.bts) {
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