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.
Fixes: 375637bc5249 ("perf/core: Introduce address range filtering")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2: split up the patch
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 13f5b942580b..4c24bc4c8a63 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -9476,8 +9474,10 @@ 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;
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