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authorDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>2017-05-22 12:04:18 +0300
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-05-23 09:50:05 +0200
commit36cc2b9222b5106de34085c4dd8635ac67ef5cba (patch)
tree6f6d4e2b9be6597b30bac40156ff01954fc904ca /kernel/events
parent85c617abc786d7da9e95c0b4174159864dd3f85c (diff)
perf/core: Fix error handling in perf_event_alloc()
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 <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Fixes: 375637bc5249 ("perf/core: Introduce address range filtering") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170522090418.hvs6icgpdo53wkn5@mwanda Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/events')
-rw-r--r--kernel/events/core.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 0028efa0abc3..f8c27d3ef3a1 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -9469,8 +9469,10 @@ perf_event_alloc(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int cpu,
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;