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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2010-09-10 17:38:06 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-09-10 17:41:55 +0200
commite5f4d3394a52ac351f1a479fe136d92fa5228eff (patch)
tree57adeb66c5e98bf86613c15295e07cbb07952be3
parentcee010ec5211b96f33c5c2208f5c14ebb04b634a (diff)
perf: Fix perf_init_event()
We ought to return -ENOENT when non of the registered PMUs recognise the requested event. This fixes a boot crash that occurs if no PMU is available but the NMI watchdog tries to register an event. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
-rw-r--r--kernel/perf_event.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index f395fb4d9b7..f29b52576ec 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -5236,12 +5236,15 @@ struct pmu *perf_init_event(struct perf_event *event)
list_for_each_entry_rcu(pmu, &pmus, entry) {
int ret = pmu->event_init(event);
if (!ret)
- break;
+ goto unlock;
+
if (ret != -ENOENT) {
pmu = ERR_PTR(ret);
- break;
+ goto unlock;
}
}
+ pmu = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
+unlock:
srcu_read_unlock(&pmus_srcu, idx);
return pmu;