From 19993b82a571893e661afd90f1d77fa698785cee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 16:06:29 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] perf machine: Guard against NULL in machine__exit() A recent fix for 'perf trace' introduced a bug where machine__exit(trace->host) could be called while trace->host was still NULL, so make this more robust by guarding against NULL, just like free() does. The problem happens, for instance, when !root users try to run 'perf trace': [acme@jouet linux]$ trace Error: No permissions to read /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/raw_syscalls/sys_(enter|exit) Hint: Try 'sudo mount -o remount,mode=755 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing' perf: Segmentation fault Obtained 7 stack frames. [0x4f1b2e] /lib64/libc.so.6(+0x3671f) [0x7f43a1dd971f] [0x4f3fec] [0x47468b] [0x42a2db] /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe9) [0x7f43a1dc3509] [0x42a6c9] Segmentation fault (core dumped) [acme@jouet linux]$ Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Andrei Vagin Cc: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Vasily Averin Cc: Wang Nan Fixes: 33974a414ce2 ("perf trace: Call machine__exit() at exit") Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/util/machine.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/machine.c b/tools/perf/util/machine.c index 6a8d03c..270f322 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/machine.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/machine.c @@ -172,6 +172,9 @@ void machine__exit(struct machine *machine) { int i; + if (machine == NULL) + return; + machine__destroy_kernel_maps(machine); map_groups__exit(&machine->kmaps); dsos__exit(&machine->dsos); -- 2.7.4