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perf/core: Fix error handling in perf_event_alloc()

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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>
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Dan Carpenter 2017-05-22 12:04:18 +03:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 1a53869c4c
commit f02bfec06f
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@ -9289,8 +9289,10 @@ perf_event_alloc(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int cpu,
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;