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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2023-10-24 11:42:21 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2023-11-08 17:26:41 +0100
commit21b07a2e6095ea57356527d20fe5bf2a5adbac3d (patch)
tree4cec07aa842219847507d952f2639d07faafb5d5 /kernel
parent6efd498009b987a92f57f3bdae476f0503364fb7 (diff)
perf/core: Fix potential NULL deref
commit a71ef31485bb51b846e8db8b3a35e432cc15afb5 upstream. Smatch is awesome. Fixes: 32671e3799ca ("perf: Disallow mis-matched inherited group reads") Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/events/core.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 1732f6548bc6..8e1290340aaf 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -13277,7 +13277,8 @@ static int inherit_group(struct perf_event *parent_event,
!perf_get_aux_event(child_ctr, leader))
return -EINVAL;
}
- leader->group_generation = parent_event->group_generation;
+ if (leader)
+ leader->group_generation = parent_event->group_generation;
return 0;
}