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From: Greg KH on 24 May 2010 19:20
2.6.34-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Hugh Dickins <hughd(a)google.com>

commit 16a2164bb03612efe79a76c73da6da44445b9287 upstream.

If the kernel is large or the profiling step small, /proc/profile
leaks data and readprofile shows silly stats, until readprofile -r
has reset the buffer: clear the prof_buffer when it is vmalloc()ed.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd(a)google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds(a)linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh(a)suse.de>

---
kernel/profile.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/profile.c
+++ b/kernel/profile.c
@@ -127,8 +127,10 @@ int __ref profile_init(void)
return 0;

prof_buffer = vmalloc(buffer_bytes);
- if (prof_buffer)
+ if (prof_buffer) {
+ memset(prof_buffer, 0, buffer_bytes);
return 0;
+ }

free_cpumask_var(prof_cpu_mask);
return -ENOMEM;


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