[PATCH 5/9] perf sched: Clean up idle_threads entry on init failure

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>]

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

get_idle_thread() allocates a thread via thread__new() and stores it in
idle_threads[cpu], then calls init_idle_thread() to set up the private
data.  If init_idle_thread() fails (e.g. OOM for the idle_thread_runtime
struct), the function returns NULL but leaves the partially initialized
thread in idle_threads[cpu].

On subsequent calls for the same CPU, get_idle_thread() finds a non-NULL
idle_threads[cpu], skips allocation, and returns thread__get() on a
thread that has no priv data.  Callers then get a thread whose
thread__priv() returns NULL, leading to unexpected behavior.

Release the thread and reset the slot to NULL on init failure so the
entry doesn't persist in a corrupted state.

Fixes: 49394a2a24c7 ("perf sched timehist: Introduce timehist command")
Reported-by: sashiko-bot <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
 tools/perf/builtin-sched.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-sched.c b/tools/perf/builtin-sched.c
index 21fb820b625b43e1..e4378cc9ab3ed48b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-sched.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-sched.c
@@ -2514,8 +2514,11 @@ static struct thread *get_idle_thread(int cpu)
 		idle_threads[cpu] = thread__new(0, 0);
 
 		if (idle_threads[cpu]) {
-			if (init_idle_thread(idle_threads[cpu]) < 0)
+			if (init_idle_thread(idle_threads[cpu]) < 0) {
+				/* clean up so next call doesn't find a half-initialized thread */
+				thread__zput(idle_threads[cpu]);
 				return NULL;
+			}
 		}
 	}
 
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