Move the freeing of any security state associated with a perf event from _free_event() to __free_event(), i.e. invoke security_perf_event_free() in the error paths for perf_event_alloc(). This will allow adding potential error paths in perf_event_alloc() that can occur after allocating security state. Note, kfree() and thus security_perf_event_free() is a nop if event->security is NULL, i.e. calling security_perf_event_free() even if security_perf_event_alloc() fails or is never reached is functionality ok. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson --- kernel/events/core.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index 3a98e11d8efc..1753a97638a3 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -5596,6 +5596,8 @@ static void __free_event(struct perf_event *event) { struct pmu *pmu = event->pmu; + security_perf_event_free(event); + if (event->attach_state & PERF_ATTACH_CALLCHAIN) put_callchain_buffers(); @@ -5659,8 +5661,6 @@ static void _free_event(struct perf_event *event) unaccount_event(event); - security_perf_event_free(event); - if (event->rb) { /* * Can happen when we close an event with re-directed output. -- 2.50.1.565.gc32cd1483b-goog