[for-next][PATCH 01/18] tracing: Fix a potential NULL dereference

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Fri Apr 06 2018 - 09:01:18 EST


From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

We forgot to set the error code on this path so we return ERR_PTR(0)
which is NULL. It results in a NULL dereference in the caller.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180323113735.GC28518@mwanda

Fixes: 100719dcef44 ("tracing: Add simple expression support to hist triggers")
Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
index 4f027642ceef..a02bc09d765a 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
@@ -2776,6 +2776,7 @@ static struct hist_field *parse_expr(struct hist_trigger_data *hist_data,
expr->fn = hist_field_plus;
break;
default:
+ ret = -EINVAL;
goto free;
}

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2.15.1