From: Hisao Tanabe xtanabe@gmail.com
[ 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 xtanabe@gmail.com Acked-by: Namhyung Kim namhyung@kernel.org Cc: Jiri Olsa jolsa@redhat.com Cc: Wang Nan wangnan0@huawei.com 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 acme@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com --- tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c index f55d10854565..3be8c489884e 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c @@ -241,8 +241,9 @@ struct perf_evsel *perf_evsel__new_idx(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int idx) { 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 |