[PATCH 6.18 073/333] perf annotate: Fix hashmap__new() error checking

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-17T17:12:10Z

From: Chen Ni <nichen@iscas.ac.cn>

[ Upstream commit bf29cb3641b80bac759c3332b02e0b270e16bf94 ]

The hashmap__new() function never returns NULL, it returns error
pointers. Fix the error checking to match.

Additionally, set src->samples to NULL to prevent any later code from
accidentally using the error pointer.

Fixes: d3e7cad6f36d9e80 ("perf annotate: Add a hashmap for symbol histogram")
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Chen Ni <nichen@iscas.ac.cn>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tianyou Li <tianyou.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
tools/perf/util/annotate.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/annotate.c b/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
index dc80d922f450d..8c493608291c2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
#include "strbuf.h"
#include <regex.h>
#include <linux/bitops.h>
+#include <linux/err.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/string.h>
#include <linux/zalloc.h>
@@ -137,8 +138,10 @@ static int annotated_source__alloc_histograms(struct annotated_source *src,
return -1;

src->samples = hashmap__new(sym_hist_hash, sym_hist_equal, NULL);
- if (src->samples == NULL)
+ if (IS_ERR(src->samples)) {
zfree(&src->histograms);
+ src->samples = NULL;
+ }

return src->histograms ? 0 : -1;
}
--
2.51.0