Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] perf cs-etm: Smatch: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Mon Jul 08 2019 - 17:57:44 EST


Em Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 11:38:48AM -0600, Mathieu Poirier escreveu:
> On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 at 08:40, Leo Yan <leo.yan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Based on the following report from Smatch, fix the potential
> > NULL pointer dereference check.
> >
> > tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c:2545
> > cs_etm__process_auxtrace_info() error: we previously assumed
> > 'session->itrace_synth_opts' could be null (see line 2541)
> >
> > tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c
> > 2541 if (session->itrace_synth_opts && session->itrace_synth_opts->set) {
> > 2542 etm->synth_opts = *session->itrace_synth_opts;
> > 2543 } else {
> > 2544 itrace_synth_opts__set_default(&etm->synth_opts,
> > 2545 session->itrace_synth_opts->default_no_sample);
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > 2546 etm->synth_opts.callchain = false;
> > 2547 }
> >
> > 'session->itrace_synth_opts' is impossible to be a NULL pointer in
> > cs_etm__process_auxtrace_info(), thus this patch removes the NULL
> > test for 'session->itrace_synth_opts'.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c b/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c
> > index ad43a6e31827..ab578a06a790 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c
> > +++ b/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c
> > @@ -2537,7 +2537,7 @@ int cs_etm__process_auxtrace_info(union perf_event *event,
> > return 0;
> > }
> >
> > - if (session->itrace_synth_opts && session->itrace_synth_opts->set) {
> > + if (session->itrace_synth_opts->set) {
> > etm->synth_opts = *session->itrace_synth_opts;
> > } else {
> > itrace_synth_opts__set_default(&etm->synth_opts,
>
> This is in accordance with what was previously discussed.
>
> Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, applied.

- Arnaldo