Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Sasha Levin <> | Subject | [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 05/26] perf evsel: Fix potential null pointer dereference in perf_evsel__new_idx() | Date | Mon, 1 Oct 2018 00:40:32 +0000 |
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From: Hisao Tanabe <xtanabe@gmail.com>
[ Upstream commit fd8d2702791a970c751f8b526a17d8e725a05b46 ]
If evsel is NULL, we should return NULL to avoid a NULL pointer dereference a bit later in the code.
Signed-off-by: Hisao Tanabe <xtanabe@gmail.com> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Fixes: 03e0a7df3efd ("perf tools: Introduce bpf-output event") LPU-Reference: 20180824154556.23428-1-xtanabe@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-e5plzjhx6595a5yjaf22jss3@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com> --- tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c index f55d10854565..3be8c489884e 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c @@ -241,8 +241,9 @@ struct perf_evsel *perf_evsel__new_idx(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int idx) { struct perf_evsel *evsel = zalloc(perf_evsel__object.size); - if (evsel != NULL) - perf_evsel__init(evsel, attr, idx); + if (!evsel) + return NULL; + perf_evsel__init(evsel, attr, idx); if (perf_evsel__is_bpf_output(evsel)) { evsel->attr.sample_type |= (PERF_SAMPLE_RAW | PERF_SAMPLE_TIME | -- 2.17.1
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