[PATCH stable-v5.9 2/2] coresight: Fix uninitialised pointer bug in etm_setup_aux()

Linu Cherian lcherian at marvell.com
Mon Nov 16 07:35:10 EST 2020


From: Mike Leach <mike.leach at linaro.org>

commit 39a7661dcf655c8198fd5d72412f5030a8e58444 upstream.

Commit [bb1860efc817] changed the sink handling code introducing an
uninitialised pointer bug. This results in the default sink selection
failing.

Prior to commit:

static void etm_setup_aux(...)

<snip>
        struct coresight_device *sink;
<snip>

        /* First get the selected sink from user space. */
        if (event->attr.config2) {
                id = (u32)event->attr.config2;
                sink = coresight_get_sink_by_id(id);
        } else {
                sink = coresight_get_enabled_sink(true);
        }
<ctd>

*sink always initialised - possibly to NULL which triggers the
automatic sink selection.

After commit:

static void etm_setup_aux(...)

<snip>
        struct coresight_device *sink;
<snip>

        /* First get the selected sink from user space. */
        if (event->attr.config2) {
                id = (u32)event->attr.config2;
                sink = coresight_get_sink_by_id(id);
        }
<ctd>

*sink pointer uninitialised when not providing a sink on the perf command
line. This breaks later checks to enable automatic sink selection.

Fixes: bb1860efc817 ("coresight: etm: perf: Sink selection using sysfs is deprecated")
Signed-off-by: Mike Leach <mike.leach at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier at linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201029164559.1268531-3-mathieu.poirier@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp at intel.com>
---
 drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
index 75379184f391..9a8d03e62a75 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ static void *etm_setup_aux(struct perf_event *event, void **pages,
 	u32 id;
 	int cpu = event->cpu;
 	cpumask_t *mask;
-	struct coresight_device *sink;
+	struct coresight_device *sink = NULL;
 	struct etm_event_data *event_data = NULL;
 
 	event_data = alloc_event_data(cpu);
-- 
2.25.1




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