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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2025-08-04 22:22:09 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2025-08-15 16:39:30 +0200
commit88052f2f4383ecfb66464d4b38478bbd99aafb2e (patch)
treeb7684594e31041e25f009ab051a926afb439b560
parent6b33c31cc788073bfbed9297e1f4486ed73d87da (diff)
perf/core: Preserve AUX buffer allocation failure result
commit 54473e0ef849f44e5ee43e6d6746c27030c3825b upstream. A recent overhaul sets the return value to 0 unconditionally after the allocations, which causes reference count leaks and corrupts the user->vm accounting. Preserve the AUX buffer allocation failure return value, so that the subsequent code works correctly. Fixes: 0983593f32c4 ("perf/core: Lift event->mmap_mutex in perf_mmap()") Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--kernel/events/core.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 22fdf0c187cd..c05262e15b7d 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -7115,6 +7115,7 @@ static int perf_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
perf_event_update_time(event);
perf_event_init_userpage(event);
perf_event_update_userpage(event);
+ ret = 0;
} else {
ret = rb_alloc_aux(rb, event, vma->vm_pgoff, nr_pages,
event->attr.aux_watermark, flags);
@@ -7122,8 +7123,6 @@ static int perf_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
rb->aux_mmap_locked = extra;
}
- ret = 0;
-
unlock:
if (!ret) {
atomic_long_add(user_extra, &user->locked_vm);