[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 11/25] perf/core: Consistently fail fork on allocation failures

[Sasha Levin]

From: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 697d877849d4b34ab58d7078d6930bad0ef6fc66 ]

Commit:

  313ccb9615948 ("perf: Allocate context task_ctx_data for child event")

makes the inherit path skip over the current event in case of task_ctx_data
allocation failure. This, however, is inconsistent with allocation failures
in perf_event_alloc(), which would abort the fork.

Correct this by returning an error code on task_ctx_data allocation
failure and failing the fork in that case.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191105075702.60319-1-alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/events/core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 625ba462e5bbd..460d5fd3ec4e4 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -11377,7 +11377,7 @@ inherit_event(struct perf_event *parent_event,
 						   GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!child_ctx->task_ctx_data) {
 			free_event(child_event);
-			return NULL;
+			return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 		}
 	}
 
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