This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled powerpc/imc-pmu: Add a null pointer check in update_events_in_group() to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: powerpc-imc-pmu-add-a-null-pointer-check-in-update_e.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 1dbbc2c188b11f75895707a29d4fad8349c93d40 Author: Kunwu Chan <chentao@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun Nov 26 17:37:19 2023 +0800 powerpc/imc-pmu: Add a null pointer check in update_events_in_group() [ Upstream commit 0a233867a39078ebb0f575e2948593bbff5826b3 ] kasprintf() returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory which can be NULL upon failure. Fixes: 885dcd709ba9 ("powerpc/perf: Add nest IMC PMU support") Signed-off-by: Kunwu Chan <chentao@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://msgid.link/20231126093719.1440305-1-chentao@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/perf/imc-pmu.c b/arch/powerpc/perf/imc-pmu.c index ada817c49b72..56d82f7f9734 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/perf/imc-pmu.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/imc-pmu.c @@ -299,6 +299,8 @@ static int update_events_in_group(struct device_node *node, struct imc_pmu *pmu) attr_group->attrs = attrs; do { ev_val_str = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "event=0x%x", pmu->events[i].value); + if (!ev_val_str) + continue; dev_str = device_str_attr_create(pmu->events[i].name, ev_val_str); if (!dev_str) continue; @@ -306,6 +308,8 @@ static int update_events_in_group(struct device_node *node, struct imc_pmu *pmu) attrs[j++] = dev_str; if (pmu->events[i].scale) { ev_scale_str = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s.scale", pmu->events[i].name); + if (!ev_scale_str) + continue; dev_str = device_str_attr_create(ev_scale_str, pmu->events[i].scale); if (!dev_str) continue; @@ -315,6 +319,8 @@ static int update_events_in_group(struct device_node *node, struct imc_pmu *pmu) if (pmu->events[i].unit) { ev_unit_str = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s.unit", pmu->events[i].name); + if (!ev_unit_str) + continue; dev_str = device_str_attr_create(ev_unit_str, pmu->events[i].unit); if (!dev_str) continue;