From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> If the initialization of tracecmd_init_data() fails, the processing will continue and this can cause errors latter on that are unrelated to the actual problem. Fail immediately instead. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/trace-cmd/trace-input.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/trace-cmd/trace-input.c b/lib/trace-cmd/trace-input.c index 11c0057589b6..c181c7d93be4 100644 --- a/lib/trace-cmd/trace-input.c +++ b/lib/trace-cmd/trace-input.c @@ -5382,12 +5382,14 @@ static int copy_trace_data_from_v6(struct tracecmd_input *in_handle, static int copy_trace_data_from_v7(struct tracecmd_input *in_handle, struct tracecmd_output *out_handle) { - int ret = 0; + int ret; int i; /* Force using temporary files for trace data decompression */ in_handle->read_zpage = false; - tracecmd_init_data(in_handle); + ret = tracecmd_init_data(in_handle); + if (ret < 0) + return ret; tracecmd_set_out_clock(out_handle, in_handle->trace_clock); /* copy top buffer */ -- 2.35.1