[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "tracing: Fix off-by-one on allocating stat->pages" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    tracing: Fix off-by-one on allocating stat->pages

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 21c705b8b7dc20921ce83b1302c641c8e347d2e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim at lge.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 21:46:24 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] tracing: Fix off-by-one on allocating stat->pages

commit 39e30cd1537937d3c00ef87e865324e981434e5b upstream.

The first page was allocated separately, so no need to start from 0.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1364820385-32027-2-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec at gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim at lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
index 38353bf..80b2000 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ int ftrace_profile_pages_init(struct ftrace_profile_stat *stat)

 	pages = DIV_ROUND_UP(functions, PROFILES_PER_PAGE);

-	for (i = 0; i < pages; i++) {
+	for (i = 1; i < pages; i++) {
 		pg->next = (void *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!pg->next)
 			goto out_free;
--
1.8.1.2