From: Natalia Petrova n.petrova@fintech.ru
commit 8b152e9150d07a885f95e1fd401fc81af202d9a4 upstream.
Function 'create_hist_field' is called recursively at trace_events_hist.c:1954 and can return NULL-value that's why we have to check it to avoid null pointer dereference.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230111120409.4111-1-n.petrova@fintech.ru
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 30350d65ac56 ("tracing: Add variable support to hist triggers") Signed-off-by: Natalia Petrova n.petrova@fintech.ru Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) rostedt@goodmis.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c @@ -1646,6 +1646,8 @@ static struct hist_field *create_hist_fi unsigned long fl = flags & ~HIST_FIELD_FL_LOG2; hist_field->fn = hist_field_log2; hist_field->operands[0] = create_hist_field(hist_data, field, fl, NULL); + if (!hist_field->operands[0]) + goto free; hist_field->size = hist_field->operands[0]->size; hist_field->type = kstrdup(hist_field->operands[0]->type, GFP_KERNEL); if (!hist_field->type)