Patch "perf/core: Fix error handling in perf_event_alloc()" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

Patch "perf/core: Fix error handling in perf_event_alloc()" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    perf/core: Fix error handling in perf_event_alloc()

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     perf-core-fix-error-handling-in-perf_event_alloc.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Mon Apr  9 17:09:24 CEST 2018
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 12:04:18 +0300
Subject: perf/core: Fix error handling in perf_event_alloc()

From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>


[ Upstream commit 36cc2b9222b5106de34085c4dd8635ac67ef5cba ]

We don't set an error code here which means that perf_event_alloc()
returns ERR_PTR(0) (in other words NULL).  The callers are not expecting
that and would Oops.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Fixes: 375637bc5249 ("perf/core: Introduce address range filtering")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170522090418.hvs6icgpdo53wkn5@mwanda
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 kernel/events/core.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -9289,8 +9289,10 @@ perf_event_alloc(struct perf_event_attr
 		event->addr_filters_offs = kcalloc(pmu->nr_addr_filters,
 						   sizeof(unsigned long),
 						   GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (!event->addr_filters_offs)
+		if (!event->addr_filters_offs) {
+			err = -ENOMEM;
 			goto err_per_task;
+		}
 
 		/* force hw sync on the address filters */
 		event->addr_filters_gen = 1;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@oracle.com are

queue-4.9/block-fix-an-error-code-in-add_partition.patch
queue-4.9/x.509-fix-error-code-in-x509_cert_parse.patch
queue-4.9/rdma-iw_cxgb4-avoid-touch-after-free-error-in-arp-failure-handlers.patch
queue-4.9/drm-amdkfd-null-dereference-involving-create_process.patch
queue-4.9/pnfs-flexfiles-missing-error-code-in-ff_layout_alloc_lseg.patch
queue-4.9/drivers-misc-vmw_vmci-vmci_queue_pair.c-fix-a-couple-integer-overflow-tests.patch
queue-4.9/cxl-unlock-on-error-in-probe.patch
queue-4.9/md-cluster-fix-potential-lock-issue-in-add_new_disk.patch
queue-4.9/ipmi_ssif-unlock-on-allocation-failure.patch
queue-4.9/powercap-fix-an-error-code-in-powercap_register_zone.patch
queue-4.9/perf-core-fix-error-handling-in-perf_event_alloc.patch
queue-4.9/libceph-null-deref-on-crush_decode-error-path.patch