Hugh Dickins 7ff4b9ccda profile: fix stats and data leakage ...

commit 16a2164bb0 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@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

2010-05-26 14:29:18 -07:00

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