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authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2012-03-06 17:34:50 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-03-12 12:31:39 -0700
commit288733a6065034d1870b02b164da0fb2d8452178 (patch)
treec3e47649068e0ef4356e3c7886dd5e1b2bd91777 /arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_xscale.c
parent075964ad4370162964f41ba1136b8581ab1a302a (diff)
ARM: 7356/1: perf: check that we have an event in the PMU IRQ handlers
commit f6f5a30c834135c9f2fa10400c59ebbdd9188567 upstream. The PMU IRQ handlers in perf assume that if a counter has overflowed then perf must be responsible. In the paranoid world of crazy hardware, this could be false, so check that we do have a valid event before attempting to dereference NULL in the interrupt path. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_xscale.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_xscale.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_xscale.c b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_xscale.c
index 5d36557bd724..ea92c0cac100 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_xscale.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_xscale.c
@@ -253,6 +253,9 @@ xscale1pmu_handle_irq(int irq_num, void *dev)
struct perf_event *event = cpuc->events[idx];
struct hw_perf_event *hwc;
+ if (!event)
+ continue;
+
if (!xscale1_pmnc_counter_has_overflowed(pmnc, idx))
continue;
@@ -590,6 +593,9 @@ xscale2pmu_handle_irq(int irq_num, void *dev)
struct perf_event *event = cpuc->events[idx];
struct hw_perf_event *hwc;
+ if (!event)
+ continue;
+
if (!xscale2_pmnc_counter_has_overflowed(pmnc, idx))
continue;