From 7a6d49dc8cad8fa1f3d63994102af8f9ae9c859f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Leo Yan Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2019 18:34:14 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] perf trace: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference found by the smatch tool 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 Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Alexey Budankov Cc: Alexios Zavras Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Changbin Du Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Eric Saint-Etienne Cc: Jin Yao Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov Cc: Mathieu Poirier Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Rasmus Villemoes Cc: Song Liu Cc: Suzuki Poulouse Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Thomas Richter Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190702103420.27540-6-leo.yan@linaro.org [ Just made it look like other tools/perf constructors, same end result ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- 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 d0eb7224dd36..e3fc9062f136 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c @@ -1038,10 +1038,10 @@ 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; } -- 2.30.2