arc_pmu not initialized in the arc/kernel/perf_event.c?

From: Max Filippov
Date: Sat Jun 13 2015 - 19:09:51 EST


Mischa, Vineet,

Looking at ARC PMU driver I've got an impression that its static arc_pmu
is left uninitialized, which possibly leads to Oops once registered
callbacks are invoked. I don't have neither ARC toolchain nor hardware to
test it, so I may be missing something. Below is the fix for it.

Thanks.
-- Max

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From: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [PATCH] arc: fix use of uninitialized arc_pmu

static arc_pmu in the arch/arc/kernel/perf_event.c is not initialized as
it's shadowed by a local variable of the same name in the
arc_pmu_device_probe.

Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arc/kernel/perf_event.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/arc/kernel/perf_event.c
index fd2ec50..57b58f5 100644
--- a/arch/arc/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/arc/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -266,7 +266,6 @@ static int arc_pmu_add(struct perf_event *event, int flags)

static int arc_pmu_device_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
- struct arc_pmu *arc_pmu;
struct arc_reg_pct_build pct_bcr;
struct arc_reg_cc_build cc_bcr;
int i, j, ret;
--
1.8.1.4
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