[tip:perf/x86] x86, perf: Fix NULL deref on not assigned x86_pmu
From: tip-bot for Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Fri Mar 12 2010 - 04:55:51 EST
Commit-ID: 0b861225a5890f22445f08ca9cc7a87cff276ff7
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/0b861225a5890f22445f08ca9cc7a87cff276ff7
Author: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:50:16 +0300
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:18:42 +0100
x86, perf: Fix NULL deref on not assigned x86_pmu
In case of not assigned x86_pmu and software events NULL dereference may
being hit via x86_pmu::schedule_events method.
Fix it by checking if x86_pmu is initialized at all.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <20100311215016.GG25162@lenovo>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c | 3 +++
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
index e6a3f5f..5586a02 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
@@ -1269,6 +1269,9 @@ int hw_perf_group_sched_in(struct perf_event *leader,
int assign[X86_PMC_IDX_MAX];
int n0, n1, ret;
+ if (!x86_pmu_initialized())
+ return 0;
+
/* n0 = total number of events */
n0 = collect_events(cpuc, leader, true);
if (n0 < 0)
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