Re: ftrace/perf_event leak

[Avi Kivity]

 On 09/01/2010 12:04 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Does something like the below cure that?

Unfortunately not.

> I seem to remember C doesn't make any promises about the order of logic
> statements, hence we need to explicitly pull out that try_module_get()
> so that it evaluates after the rest of the conditions.

&& and || are executed in order (so you can write

   if (p && p->x)

).

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I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.

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