[PATCH 4.19 080/271] perf evsel: Make perf_evsel__name() accept a NULL argument

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

[ Upstream commit fdbdd7e8580eac9bdafa532746c865644d125e34 ]

In which case it simply returns "unknown", like when it can't figure out
the evsel->name value.

This makes this code more robust and fixes a problem in 'perf trace'
where a NULL evsel was being passed to a routine that only used the
evsel for printing its name when a invalid syscall id was passed.

Reported-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-f30ztaasku3z935cn3ak3h53@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index b65ad5a273eb..4fad92213609 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -590,6 +590,9 @@ const char *perf_evsel__name(struct perf_evsel *evsel)
 {
 	char bf[128];
 
+	if (!evsel)
+		goto out_unknown;
+
 	if (evsel->name)
 		return evsel->name;
 
@@ -626,7 +629,10 @@ const char *perf_evsel__name(struct perf_evsel *evsel)
 
 	evsel->name = strdup(bf);
 
-	return evsel->name ?: "unknown";
+	if (evsel->name)
+		return evsel->name;
+out_unknown:
+	return "unknown";
 }
 
 const char *perf_evsel__group_name(struct perf_evsel *evsel)
-- 
2.20.1