From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 90574d2a675947858b47008df8d07f75ea50d0d0 upstream. If the "tool->data" allocation fails then there is no need to call osnoise_free_top() and, in fact, doing so will lead to a NULL dereference. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" <lgoncalv@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Clark Williams <williams@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 1eceb2fc2ca5 ("rtla/osnoise: Add osnoise top mode") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/f964ed1f-64d2-4fde-ad3e-708331f8f358@stanley.mountain Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/tracing/rtla/src/osnoise_top.c | 11 ++++------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/tools/tracing/rtla/src/osnoise_top.c +++ b/tools/tracing/rtla/src/osnoise_top.c @@ -520,8 +520,10 @@ struct osnoise_tool *osnoise_init_top(st return NULL; tool->data = osnoise_alloc_top(nr_cpus); - if (!tool->data) - goto out_err; + if (!tool->data) { + osnoise_destroy_tool(tool); + return NULL; + } tool->params = params; @@ -529,11 +531,6 @@ struct osnoise_tool *osnoise_init_top(st osnoise_top_handler, NULL); return tool; - -out_err: - osnoise_free_top(tool->data); - osnoise_destroy_tool(tool); - return NULL; } static int stop_tracing; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-6.1/rtla-osnoise-prevent-null-dereference-in-error-handling.patch