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| author | Hisao Tanabe <xtanabe@gmail.com> | 2018-08-24 17:45:56 +0200 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2018-08-30 19:49:25 +0200 |
| commit | fd8d2702791a970c751f8b526a17d8e725a05b46 (patch) | |
| tree | 2f0b990e3a6909a7185ae5d80274af542409d642 /tools | |
| parent | perf arm64: Fix include path for asm-generic/unistd.h (diff) | |
| download | linux-fd8d2702791a970c751f8b526a17d8e725a05b46.tar.xz linux-fd8d2702791a970c751f8b526a17d8e725a05b46.zip | |
perf evsel: Fix potential null pointer dereference in perf_evsel__new_idx()
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c index c980bbff6353..1a61628a1c12 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c @@ -251,8 +251,9 @@ 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 | |