4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Hisao Tanabe <[email protected]> [ Upstream commit fd8d2702791a970c751f8b526a17d8e725a05b46 ] 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 <[email protected]> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Wang Nan <[email protected]> Fixes: 03e0a7df3efd ("perf tools: Introduce bpf-output event") LPU-Reference: [email protected] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c @@ -241,8 +241,9 @@ struct perf_evsel *perf_evsel__new_idx(s { 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 |
