From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> mainline inclusion from mainline-5.13-rc3 commit 3b2f17ad1770e51b8b4e68b5069c4f1ee477eff8 category: bugfix issue: #I3ZXZF CVE: NA Reference: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?i... --------------------------- 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 <tmricht@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Sumanth Korikkar <sumanthk@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/YKVESEKRjKtILhog@kernel.org/ Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Kuohai Xu <xukuohai@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Chen Jun <chenjun102@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Yu Changchun <yuchangchun1@huawei.com> --- 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 3b273580fb84..61bbbbeb9d3d 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c @@ -2810,9 +2810,14 @@ void print_symbol_events(const char *event_glob, unsigned type, } 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; -- 2.22.0