From fd8d2702791a970c751f8b526a17d8e725a05b46 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hisao Tanabe Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 00:45:56 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] perf evsel: Fix potential null pointer dereference in perf_evsel__new_idx() 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 --- 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 c980bbff6353..1a61628a1c12 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c @@ -251,8 +251,9 @@ 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 |