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authorHisao Tanabe2018-08-25 00:45:56 +0900
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2018-08-30 14:49:25 -0300
commitfd8d2702791a970c751f8b526a17d8e725a05b46 (patch)
tree2f0b990e3a6909a7185ae5d80274af542409d642 /tools/perf/util
parent5ab1de932e2923f490645ad017a689c5b58dc433 (diff)
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 <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>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/evsel.c5
1 files 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 |