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perf evsel: Fix potential null pointer dereference in perf_evsel__new_idx()

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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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Hisao Tanabe 2018-08-25 00:45:56 +09:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent a80e03b6c0
commit 6040d231de
1 changed files with 3 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -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 |