From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:43918 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726672AbeJIB4I (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Oct 2018 21:56:08 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Hisao Tanabe , Namhyung Kim , Jiri Olsa , Wang Nan , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 4.14 49/94] perf evsel: Fix potential null pointer dereference in perf_evsel__new_idx() Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 20:31:30 +0200 Message-Id: <20181008175607.460764455@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20181008175605.067676667@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20181008175605.067676667@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Hisao Tanabe [ Upstream commit fd8d2702791a970c751f8b526a17d8e725a05b46 ] If evsel is NULL, we should return NULL to avoid a NULL pointer dereference a bit later in the code. Signed-off-by: Hisao Tanabe Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Wang Nan Fixes: 03e0a7df3efd ("perf tools: Introduce bpf-output event") LPU-Reference: 20180824154556.23428-1-xtanabe@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-e5plzjhx6595a5yjaf22jss3@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c @@ -259,8 +259,9 @@ struct perf_evsel *perf_evsel__new_idx(s { struct perf_evsel *evsel = zalloc(perf_evsel__object.size); - if (evsel != NULL) - perf_evsel__init(evsel, attr, idx); + if (!evsel) + return NULL; + perf_evsel__init(evsel, attr, idx); if (perf_evsel__is_bpf_output(evsel)) { evsel->attr.sample_type |= (PERF_SAMPLE_RAW | PERF_SAMPLE_TIME |