From: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 697d877849d4b34ab58d7078d6930bad0ef6fc66 ] Commit: 313ccb9615948 ("perf: Allocate context task_ctx_data for child event") makes the inherit path skip over the current event in case of task_ctx_data allocation failure. This, however, is inconsistent with allocation failures in perf_event_alloc(), which would abort the fork. Correct this by returning an error code on task_ctx_data allocation failure and failing the fork in that case. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191105075702.60319-1-alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/events/core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index 625ba462e5bbd..460d5fd3ec4e4 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -11377,7 +11377,7 @@ inherit_event(struct perf_event *parent_event, GFP_KERNEL); if (!child_ctx->task_ctx_data) { free_event(child_event); - return NULL; + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); } } -- 2.20.1