[PATCH 1/3] ARM: perf: Check that current->mm is alive before getting user callchain

Jean Pihet jean.pihet at linaro.org
Fri Jun 27 07:57:45 PDT 2014


An event may occur when an mm is already released.

As per commit 20afc60f892d285fde179ead4b24e6a7938c2f1b
 'x86, perf: Check that current->mm is alive before getting user callchain'

Signed-off-by: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet at linaro.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c
index 4238bcb..6493c4c 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -590,6 +590,10 @@ perf_callchain_user(struct perf_callchain_entry *entry, struct pt_regs *regs)
 	}
 
 	perf_callchain_store(entry, regs->ARM_pc);
+
+	if (!current->mm)
+		return;
+
 	tail = (struct frame_tail __user *)regs->ARM_fp - 1;
 
 	while ((entry->nr < PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH) &&
-- 
1.8.1.2




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