Hi Dan,

On Fri, 2018-03-23 at 14:37 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> We forgot to set the error code on this path so we return ERR_PTR(0)
> which is NULL.  It results in a NULL dereference in the caller.
> 
> Fixes: 100719dcef44 ("tracing: Add simple expression support to hist 
> triggers")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c 
> b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
> index 4f027642ceef..a02bc09d765a 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
> @@ -2776,6 +2776,7 @@ static struct hist_field *parse_expr(struct 
> hist_trigger_data *hist_data,
>               expr->fn = hist_field_plus;
>               break;
>       default:
> +             ret = -EINVAL;
>               goto free;
>       }
>  

Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>

Thanks for catching this!

Tom

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