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Commit 19993b82 authored by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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perf machine: Guard against NULL in machine__exit()



A recent fix for 'perf trace' introduced a bug where
machine__exit(trace->host) could be called while trace->host was still
NULL, so make this more robust by guarding against NULL, just like
free() does.

The problem happens, for instance, when !root users try to run 'perf
trace':

  [acme@jouet linux]$ trace
  Error:	No permissions to read /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/raw_syscalls/sys_(enter|exit)
  Hint:	Try 'sudo mount -o remount,mode=755 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing'

  perf: Segmentation fault
  Obtained 7 stack frames.
  [0x4f1b2e]
  /lib64/libc.so.6(+0x3671f) [0x7f43a1dd971f]
  [0x4f3fec]
  [0x47468b]
  [0x42a2db]
  /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe9) [0x7f43a1dc3509]
  [0x42a6c9]
  Segmentation fault (core dumped)
  [acme@jouet linux]$

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrei Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Fixes: 33974a41 ("perf trace: Call machine__exit() at exit")
Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
parent a0e3dd79
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