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perf evsel: Avoid container_of on a NULL leader
authorIan Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Thu, 21 Aug 2025 16:38:17 +0000 (09:38 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 19 Oct 2025 14:23:05 +0000 (16:23 +0200)
commit7011bf1c967a7c1aba199568d526a395be242cba
tree1053328c3212b0ff87660e6d64a4d8449af51e04
parent5b0057459cdc243ffb35617603142dcace09c711
perf evsel: Avoid container_of on a NULL leader

[ Upstream commit 2354479026d726954ff86ce82f4b649637319661 ]

An evsel should typically have a leader of itself, however, in tests
like 'Sample parsing' a NULL leader may occur and the container_of
will return a corrupt pointer.

Avoid this with an explicit NULL test.

Fixes: fba7c86601e2e42d ("libperf: Move 'leader' from tools/perf to perf_evsel::leader")
Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Blake Jones <blakejones@google.com>
Cc: Chun-Tse Shao <ctshao@google.com>
Cc: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com>
Cc: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Polensky <japo@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Li Huafei <lihuafei1@huawei.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steinar H. Gunderson <sesse@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250821163820.1132977-4-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
tools/perf/util/evsel.c