linux-kernel - [PATCH] coresight: Fix uninitialised pointer bug in etm_setup

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Date:   Wed, 28 Oct 2020 17:43:01 +0000
From:   Mike Leach <mike.leach@...aro.org>
To:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, coresight@...ts.linaro.org,
        mathieu.poirier@...aro.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     suzuki.poulose@....com, alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com,
        lcherian@...vell.com, Mike Leach <mike.leach@...aro.org>
Subject: [PATCH] coresight: Fix uninitialised pointer bug in etm_setup_aux()

Commit [bb1860efc817] changed the sink handling code introducing an
uninitialised pointer bug. This results in the default sink selection
failing.

Prior to commit:

static void etm_setup_aux(...)

<snip>
        struct coresight_device *sink;
<snip>

        /* First get the selected sink from user space. */
        if (event->attr.config2) {
                id = (u32)event->attr.config2;
                sink = coresight_get_sink_by_id(id);
        } else {
                sink = coresight_get_enabled_sink(true);
        }
<ctd>

*sink always initialised - possibly to NULL which triggers the
automatic sink selection.

After commit:

static void etm_setup_aux(...)

<snip>
        struct coresight_device *sink;
<snip>

        /* First get the selected sink from user space. */
        if (event->attr.config2) {
                id = (u32)event->attr.config2;
                sink = coresight_get_sink_by_id(id);
        }
<ctd>

*sink pointer uninitialised when not providing a sink on the perf command
line. This breaks later checks to enable automatic sink selection.

Fixes [bb1860efc817] ("coresight: etm: perf: Sink selection using sysfs is deprecated")
Signed-off-by: Mike Leach <mike.leach@...aro.org>
---
 drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
index c2c9b127d074..bdc34ca449f7 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ static void *etm_setup_aux(struct perf_event *event, void **pages,
 	u32 id;
 	int cpu = event->cpu;
 	cpumask_t *mask;
-	struct coresight_device *sink;
+	struct coresight_device *sink = NULL;
 	struct etm_event_data *event_data = NULL;
 
 	event_data = alloc_event_data(cpu);
-- 
2.17.1