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authorNatalia Petrova <n.petrova@fintech.ru>2023-01-11 15:04:09 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2023-02-01 08:23:22 +0100
commit886aa449235f478e262bbd5dcdee6ed6bc202949 (patch)
tree0aa9205347ef27ab4668253c3ed33a28a100f3be /kernel
parentde3930a4883ddad2244efd6d349013294c62c75c (diff)
trace_events_hist: add check for return value of 'create_hist_field'
commit 8b152e9150d07a885f95e1fd401fc81af202d9a4 upstream. Function 'create_hist_field' is called recursively at trace_events_hist.c:1954 and can return NULL-value that's why we have to check it to avoid null pointer dereference. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230111120409.4111-1-n.petrova@fintech.ru Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 30350d65ac56 ("tracing: Add variable support to hist triggers") Signed-off-by: Natalia Petrova <n.petrova@fintech.ru> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
index 0ae3e4454ff2..ccc99cd23f3c 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
@@ -1646,6 +1646,8 @@ static struct hist_field *create_hist_field(struct hist_trigger_data *hist_data,
unsigned long fl = flags & ~HIST_FIELD_FL_LOG2;
hist_field->fn = hist_field_log2;
hist_field->operands[0] = create_hist_field(hist_data, field, fl, NULL);
+ if (!hist_field->operands[0])
+ goto free;
hist_field->size = hist_field->operands[0]->size;
hist_field->type = kstrdup(hist_field->operands[0]->type, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!hist_field->type)