The patch 1b715e1b0ec5: "bpf: Support ->fill_link_info for perf_event" from Jul 9, 2023, leads to the following Smatch static checker warning: kernel/bpf/syscall.c:3416 bpf_perf_link_fill_kprobe() error: uninitialized symbol 'type'. That can happens when uname is NULL. So fix it by verifying the uname when we really need to fill it. Fixes: 1b715e1b0ec5 ("bpf: Support ->fill_link_info for perf_event") Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/85697a7e-f897-4f74-8b43-82721bebc462@kili.mountain/ Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@xxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/bpf/syscall.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c index 7f4e8c3..166390f 100644 --- a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c +++ b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c @@ -3378,14 +3378,14 @@ static int bpf_perf_link_fill_common(const struct perf_event *event, if (!ulen ^ !uname) return -EINVAL; - if (!uname) - return 0; err = bpf_get_perf_event_info(event, &prog_id, fd_type, &buf, probe_offset, probe_addr); if (err) return err; + if (!uname) + return 0; if (buf) { len = strlen(buf); err = bpf_copy_to_user(uname, buf, ulen, len); -- 1.8.3.1