From: Leo Yan <leo.yan@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 7a6d49dc8cad8fa1f3d63994102af8f9ae9c859f ] Based on the following report from Smatch, fix the potential NULL pointer dereference check. tools/perf/builtin-trace.c:1044 thread_trace__new() error: we previously assumed 'ttrace' could be null (see line 1041). tools/perf/builtin-trace.c 1037 static struct thread_trace *thread_trace__new(void) 1038 { 1039 struct thread_trace *ttrace = zalloc(sizeof(struct thread_trace)); 1040 1041 if (ttrace) 1042 ttrace->files.max = -1; 1043 1044 ttrace->syscall_stats = intlist__new(NULL); ^^^^^^^^ 1045 1046 return ttrace; 1047 } Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexios Zavras <alexios.zavras@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Changbin Du <changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eric Saint-Etienne <eric.saint.etienne@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx> Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190702103420.27540-6-leo.yan@xxxxxxxxxx [ Just made it look like other tools/perf constructors, same end result ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/perf/builtin-trace.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c index 52fadc858ef0..909e68545bb8 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c @@ -997,10 +997,10 @@ static struct thread_trace *thread_trace__new(void) { struct thread_trace *ttrace = zalloc(sizeof(struct thread_trace)); - if (ttrace) + if (ttrace) { ttrace->files.max = -1; - - ttrace->syscall_stats = intlist__new(NULL); + ttrace->syscall_stats = intlist__new(NULL); + } return ttrace; } -- 2.20.1