From 3b2f17ad1770e51b8b4e68b5069c4f1ee477eff8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Date: Wed, 19 May 2021 13:50:31 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] perf parse-events: Check if the software events array slots are populated To avoid a NULL pointer dereference when the kernel supports the new feature but the tooling still hasn't an entry for it. This happened with the recently added PERF_COUNT_SW_CGROUP_SWITCHES software event. Reported-by: Thomas Richter Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Sumanth Korikkar Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/YKVESEKRjKtILhog@kernel.org/ Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c index 269997066f6e..84108c17f48d 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c @@ -2932,9 +2932,14 @@ restart: } for (i = 0; i < max; i++, syms++) { + /* + * New attr.config still not supported here, the latest + * example was PERF_COUNT_SW_CGROUP_SWITCHES + */ + if (syms->symbol == NULL) + continue; - if (event_glob != NULL && syms->symbol != NULL && - !(strglobmatch(syms->symbol, event_glob) || + if (event_glob != NULL && !(strglobmatch(syms->symbol, event_glob) || (syms->alias && strglobmatch(syms->alias, event_glob)))) continue; -- 2.20.1