tracing: don't stuff stale pointers in filp->private_data

From: Dave Jones
Date: Wed Sep 25 2013 - 18:49:27 EST


Probably harmless, but still not a nice thing to do.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
index 368a4d5..27aa16e 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
@@ -1124,10 +1124,10 @@ static int system_tr_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
if (ret < 0) {
trace_array_put(tr);
kfree(dir);
+ } else {
+ filp->private_data = dir;
}

- filp->private_data = dir;
-
return ret;
}

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