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* [PATCH] perf/core: Fix reversed NULL check in perf_event_groups_less()
@ 2020-03-12 10:56 Dan Carpenter
  2020-03-13 12:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
  2020-03-20 12:58 ` [tip: perf/core] " tip-bot2 for Dan Carpenter
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Dan Carpenter @ 2020-03-12 10:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Peter Zijlstra, Ian Rogers
  Cc: Ingo Molnar, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Mark Rutland,
	Alexander Shishkin, Jiri Olsa, Namhyung Kim, linux-kernel,
	kernel-janitors

This NULL check is reversed so it leads to a Smatch warning and
presumably a NULL dereference.

    kernel/events/core.c:1598 perf_event_groups_less()
    error: we previously assumed 'right->cgrp->css.cgroup' could be null
	(see line 1590)

Fixes: 95ed6c707f26 ("perf/cgroup: Order events in RB tree by cgroup id")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
---
 kernel/events/core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 6a47c3e54fe9..607c04ec7cfa 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -1587,7 +1587,7 @@ perf_event_groups_less(struct perf_event *left, struct perf_event *right)
 			 */
 			return true;
 		}
-		if (!right->cgrp || right->cgrp->css.cgroup) {
+		if (!right->cgrp || !right->cgrp->css.cgroup) {
 			/*
 			 * Right has no cgroup but left does, no cgroups come
 			 * first.
-- 
2.20.1


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