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From: Gaurav Singh <gaurav1086@gmail.com>
To: gaurav1086@gmail.com, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Tommi Rantala <tommi.t.rantala@nokia.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list:PERFORMANCE EVENTS
	SUBSYSTEM)
Subject: [PATCH] [perf] Fix null pointer deference in nest_epollfd
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 20:38:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200618003916.26644-1-gaurav1086@gmail.com> (raw)

Add a NULL check for worker before dereferencing.

Signed-off-by: Gaurav Singh <gaurav1086@gmail.com>
---
 tools/perf/bench/epoll-wait.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/epoll-wait.c b/tools/perf/bench/epoll-wait.c
index 75dca9773186..42983eb7f82e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/bench/epoll-wait.c
+++ b/tools/perf/bench/epoll-wait.c
@@ -239,6 +239,9 @@ static void *workerfn(void *arg)
 
 static void nest_epollfd(struct worker *w)
 {
+	if (!w)
+		return;
+
 	unsigned int i;
 	struct epoll_event ev;
 	int efd = multiq ? w->epollfd : epollfd;
-- 
2.17.1


             reply	other threads:[~2020-06-18  0:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-18  0:38 Gaurav Singh [this message]
2020-06-18 14:48 ` Namhyung Kim
     [not found]   ` <CAFAFadA3rRQxw9nyGnhn7kshRfQ_2AN+d-eCwHF-HJ_bYfYVog@mail.gmail.com>
2020-06-19 13:12     ` Namhyung Kim

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