From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:51480 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753407AbeDYKic (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Apr 2018 06:38:32 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Richter , Heiko Carstens , Hendrik Brueckner , Martin Schwidefsky , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 4.14 042/183] perf record: Fix failed memory allocation for get_cpuid_str Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 12:34:22 +0200 Message-Id: <20180425103244.258042823@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20180425103242.532713678@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20180425103242.532713678@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Thomas Richter [ Upstream commit 81fccd6ca507d3b2012eaf1edeb9b1dbf4bd22db ] In x86 architecture dependend part function get_cpuid_str() mallocs a 128 byte buffer, but does not check if the memory allocation succeeded or not. When the memory allocation fails, function __get_cpuid() is called with first parameter being a NULL pointer. However this function references its first parameter and operates on a NULL pointer which might cause core dumps. Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Hendrik Brueckner Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180117131611.34319-1-tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- tools/perf/arch/x86/util/header.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/header.c +++ b/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/header.c @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ get_cpuid_str(void) { char *buf = malloc(128); - if (__get_cpuid(buf, 128, "%s-%u-%X$") < 0) { + if (buf && __get_cpuid(buf, 128, "%s-%u-%X$") < 0) { free(buf); return NULL; }