[GIT PULL] perf events fix

[Ingo Molnar]

Linus,

Please pull the latest perf/urgent git tree from:

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git perf-urgent-2023-10-28

   # HEAD: a71ef31485bb51b846e8db8b3a35e432cc15afb5 perf/core: Fix potential NULL deref

Fix a potential NULL dereference bug.

 Thanks,

	Ingo

------------------>
Peter Zijlstra (1):
      perf/core: Fix potential NULL deref


 kernel/events/core.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index d0663b9324e7..a2f2a9525d72 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -13372,7 +13372,8 @@ static int inherit_group(struct perf_event *parent_event,
 		    !perf_get_aux_event(child_ctr, leader))
 			return -EINVAL;
 	}
-	leader->group_generation = parent_event->group_generation;
+	if (leader)
+		leader->group_generation = parent_event->group_generation;
 	return 0;
 }