perf record: Fix failed memory allocation for get_cpuid_str

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1774063
[ 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@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180117131611.34319-1-tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Khalid Elmously <khalid.elmously@canonical.com>

diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/header.c b/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/header.c
index b626d2bad9f18865ab385ea26c6751f2f829e904..fb0d71afee8bb4a9d7680c09271f903894b31fa7 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/header.c
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/header.c
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ get_cpuid_str(struct perf_pmu *pmu __maybe_unused)
 {
        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;
        }