5.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org
commit a71ef31485bb51b846e8db8b3a35e432cc15afb5 upstream.
Smatch is awesome.
Fixes: 32671e3799ca ("perf: Disallow mis-matched inherited group reads") Reported-by: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) peterz@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- kernel/events/core.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -12015,7 +12015,8 @@ static int inherit_group(struct perf_eve !perf_get_aux_event(child_ctr, leader)) return -EINVAL; } - leader->group_generation = parent_event->group_generation; + if (leader) + leader->group_generation = parent_event->group_generation; return 0; }