From: Thomas Richter <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 81fccd6ca507d3b2012eaf1edeb9b1dbf4bd22db ]

In x86 architecture dependend part function get_cpuid_str() mallocs a
128 byte buffer, but does not check if the memory allocation succeeded
or not.

When the memory allocation fails, function __get_cpuid() is called with
first parameter being a NULL pointer.  However this function references
its first parameter and operates on a NULL pointer which might cause
core dumps.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <[email protected]>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>
Cc: Hendrik Brueckner <[email protected]>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
---
 tools/perf/arch/x86/util/header.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/header.c 
b/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/header.c
index 33027c5e6f92..c6b5204e0280 100644
--- a/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/header.c
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/header.c
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ get_cpuid_str(void)
 {
        char *buf = malloc(128);
 
-       if (__get_cpuid(buf, 128, "%s-%u-%X$") < 0) {
+       if (buf && __get_cpuid(buf, 128, "%s-%u-%X$") < 0) {
                free(buf);
                return NULL;
        }
-- 
2.15.1

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