From 77d17d0e8934b65864051d74b099f04420066689 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Richter Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 14:16:11 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] perf record: Fix failed memory allocation for get_cpuid_str [ Upstream commit 81fccd6ca507d3b2012eaf1edeb9b1dbf4bd22db ] In x86 architecture dependend part function get_cpuid_str() mallocs a 128 byte buffer, but does not check if the memory allocation succeeded or not. When the memory allocation fails, function __get_cpuid() is called with first parameter being a NULL pointer. However this function references its first parameter and operates on a NULL pointer which might cause core dumps. Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Hendrik Brueckner Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180117131611.34319-1-tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- tools/perf/arch/x86/util/header.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/header.c b/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/header.c index 33027c5..c6b5204 100644 --- a/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/header.c +++ b/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/header.c @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ get_cpuid_str(void) { char *buf = malloc(128); - if (__get_cpuid(buf, 128, "%s-%u-%X$") < 0) { + if (buf && __get_cpuid(buf, 128, "%s-%u-%X$") < 0) { free(buf); return NULL; } -- 2.7.4