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Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 05/26] perf evsel: Fix potential null pointer
 dereference in perf_evsel__new_idx()
Thread-Topic: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 05/26] perf evsel: Fix potential null pointer
 dereference in perf_evsel__new_idx()
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From: Hisao Tanabe <xtanabe@gmail.com>

[ Upstream commit fd8d2702791a970c751f8b526a17d8e725a05b46 ]

If evsel is NULL, we should return NULL to avoid a NULL pointer
dereference a bit later in the code.

Signed-off-by: Hisao Tanabe <xtanabe@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Fixes: 03e0a7df3efd ("perf tools: Introduce bpf-output event")
LPU-Reference: 20180824154556.23428-1-xtanabe@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-e5plzjhx6595a5yjaf22jss3@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
---
 tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index f55d10854565..3be8c489884e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -241,8 +241,9 @@ struct perf_evsel *perf_evsel__new_idx(struct perf_even=
t_attr *attr, int idx)
 {
 	struct perf_evsel *evsel =3D zalloc(perf_evsel__object.size);
=20
-	if (evsel !=3D NULL)
-		perf_evsel__init(evsel, attr, idx);
+	if (!evsel)
+		return NULL;
+	perf_evsel__init(evsel, attr, idx);
=20
 	if (perf_evsel__is_bpf_output(evsel)) {
 		evsel->attr.sample_type |=3D (PERF_SAMPLE_RAW | PERF_SAMPLE_TIME |
--=20
2.17.1