4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]> [ Upstream commit 36cc2b9222b5106de34085c4dd8635ac67ef5cba ] 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 <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: Vince Weaver <[email protected]> Fixes: 375637bc5249 ("perf/core: Introduce address range filtering") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170522090418.hvs6icgpdo53wkn5@mwanda Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- kernel/events/core.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -9289,8 +9289,10 @@ perf_event_alloc(struct perf_event_attr 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;
