[PATCH 4.9 038/329] perf record: Fix failed memory allocation for get_cpuid_str

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon May 28 2018 - 06:28:08 EST


4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Thomas Richter <tmricht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 81fccd6ca507d3b2012eaf1edeb9b1dbf4bd22db ]

In x86 architecture dependend part function get_cpuid_str() mallocs a
128 byte buffer, but does not check if the memory allocation succeeded
or not.

When the memory allocation fails, function __get_cpuid() is called with
first parameter being a NULL pointer. However this function references
its first parameter and operates on a NULL pointer which might cause
core dumps.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180117131611.34319-1-tmricht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/arch/x86/util/header.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/header.c
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/header.c
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ get_cpuid_str(void)
{
char *buf = malloc(128);

- if (__get_cpuid(buf, 128, "%s-%u-%X$") < 0) {
+ if (buf && __get_cpuid(buf, 128, "%s-%u-%X$") < 0) {
free(buf);
return NULL;
}