perf evsel: Fix potential null pointer dereference in perf_evsel__new_idx()
authorHisao Tanabe <xtanabe@gmail.com>
Fri, 24 Aug 2018 15:45:56 +0000 (00:45 +0900)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 10 Oct 2018 06:53:20 +0000 (08:53 +0200)
commit6040d231deea7825c89f294cc6ef61bc7ff29875
treeb323fba382e2c1669ffc31bfc9779a10e97b05ee
parenta80e03b6c0e0e35bd49d9cea75a64db1d4017666
perf evsel: Fix potential null pointer dereference in perf_evsel__new_idx()

[ 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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
tools/perf/util/evsel.c