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perf top: Don't pass an ERR_PTR() directly to perf_session__delete()
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While debugging a segfault on 'perf lock contention' without an
available perf.data file I noticed that it was basically calling:

	perf_session__delete(ERR_PTR(-1))

Resulting in:

  (gdb) run lock contention
  Starting program: /root/bin/perf lock contention
  [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
  Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1".
  failed to open perf.data: No such file or directory  (try 'perf record' first)
  Initializing perf session failed

  Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
  0x00000000005e7515 in auxtrace__free (session=0xffffffffffffffff) at util/auxtrace.c:2858
  2858		if (!session->auxtrace)
  (gdb) p session
  $1 = (struct perf_session *) 0xffffffffffffffff
  (gdb) bt
  #0  0x00000000005e7515 in auxtrace__free (session=0xffffffffffffffff) at util/auxtrace.c:2858
  #1  0x000000000057bb4d in perf_session__delete (session=0xffffffffffffffff) at util/session.c:300
  #2  0x000000000047c421 in __cmd_contention (argc=0, argv=0x7fffffffe200) at builtin-lock.c:2161
  #3  0x000000000047dc95 in cmd_lock (argc=0, argv=0x7fffffffe200) at builtin-lock.c:2604
  #4  0x0000000000501466 in run_builtin (p=0xe597a8 <commands+552>, argc=2, argv=0x7fffffffe200) at perf.c:322
  #5  0x00000000005016d5 in handle_internal_command (argc=2, argv=0x7fffffffe200) at perf.c:375
  #6  0x0000000000501824 in run_argv (argcp=0x7fffffffe02c, argv=0x7fffffffe020) at perf.c:419
  #7  0x0000000000501b11 in main (argc=2, argv=0x7fffffffe200) at perf.c:535
  (gdb)

So just set it to NULL after using PTR_ERR(session) to decode the error
as perf_session__delete(NULL) is supported.

The same problem was found in 'perf top' after an audit of all
perf_session__new() failure handling.

Fixes: 6ef81c5 ("perf session: Return error code for perf_session__new() function on failure")
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexey Budankov <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeremie Galarneau <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Kate Stewart <[email protected]>
Cc: Mamatha Inamdar <[email protected]>
Cc: Mukesh Ojha <[email protected]>
Cc: Nageswara R Sastry <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <[email protected]>
Cc: Shawn Landden <[email protected]>
Cc: Song Liu <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Tzvetomir Stoyanov <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
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acmel authored and gregkh committed Sep 19, 2023
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Expand Up @@ -1805,6 +1805,7 @@ int cmd_top(int argc, const char **argv)
top.session = perf_session__new(NULL, NULL);
if (IS_ERR(top.session)) {
status = PTR_ERR(top.session);
top.session = NULL;
goto out_delete_evlist;
}

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