Re: [PATCH] perf_events: fix NULL point in free_event()

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Sep 13 2010 - 10:56:06 EST


On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 16:36 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> Without the following patch, perf top as non-root and
> paranoid cpu set causes a NULL pointer dereference in
> free_event() because event->ctx is NULL.

Yeah, its already on its way.. Cyrill also reported this.
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