4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com
[ Upstream commit 36cc2b9222b5106de34085c4dd8635ac67ef5cba ]
We don't set an error code here which means that perf_event_alloc() returns ERR_PTR(0) (in other words NULL). The callers are not expecting that and would Oops.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) peterz@infradead.org Cc: Alexander Shishkin alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@kernel.org Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com Cc: Jiri Olsa jolsa@redhat.com Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Stephane Eranian eranian@google.com Cc: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: Vince Weaver vincent.weaver@maine.edu Fixes: 375637bc5249 ("perf/core: Introduce address range filtering") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170522090418.hvs6icgpdo53wkn5@mwanda Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- kernel/events/core.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -9289,8 +9289,10 @@ perf_event_alloc(struct perf_event_attr event->addr_filters_offs = kcalloc(pmu->nr_addr_filters, sizeof(unsigned long), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!event->addr_filters_offs) + if (!event->addr_filters_offs) { + err = -ENOMEM; goto err_per_task; + }
/* force hw sync on the address filters */ event->addr_filters_gen = 1;