linux/debian/patches/features/all/rt/0005-tracing-Fix-a-potentia...

31 lines
1.1 KiB
Diff

From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 14:37:36 +0300
Subject: [PATCH 5/5] tracing: Fix a potential NULL dereference
Origin: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/4.16/older/patches-4.16.8-rt3.tar.xz
We forgot to set the error code on this path so we return ERR_PTR(0)
which is NULL. It results in a NULL dereference in the caller.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180323113735.GC28518@mwanda
Fixes: 100719dcef44 ("tracing: Add simple expression support to hist triggers")
Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
(cherry picked from commit 5e4cf2bf6d1c198a90ccc0df5ffd8e0d4ea36b48)
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
---
kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
@@ -2777,6 +2777,7 @@ static struct hist_field *parse_expr(str
expr->fn = hist_field_plus;
break;
default:
+ ret = -EINVAL;
goto free;
}