6.5-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit a71ef31485bb51b846e8db8b3a35e432cc15afb5 upstream.
Smatch is awesome.
Fixes: 32671e3799ca ("perf: Disallow mis-matched inherited group reads")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/events/core.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -13383,7 +13383,8 @@ static int inherit_group(struct perf_eve
!perf_get_aux_event(child_ctr, leader))
return -EINVAL;
}
- leader->group_generation = parent_event->group_generation;
+ if (leader)
+ leader->group_generation = parent_event->group_generation;
return 0;
}
