libperf cpumap: Ensure empty cpumap is NULL from alloc

Potential corner cases could cause a cpumap to be allocated with size
0, but an empty cpumap should be represented as NULL. Add a path in
perf_cpu_map__alloc() to ensure this.

Suggested-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
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: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>
Cc: André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Atish Patra <atishp@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Changbin Du <changbin.du@huawei.com>
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
Cc: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Paran Lee <p4ranlee@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Cc: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: Steinar H. Gunderson <sesse@google.com>
Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com>
Cc: Yang Li <yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/2cd09e7c-eb88-6726-6169-647dcd0a8101@arm.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240202234057.2085863-3-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

diff --git a/tools/lib/perf/cpumap.c b/tools/lib/perf/cpumap.c
index ba49552952c59ded0915b556d1a519ac9ef2e054..cae799ad44e1362059e45635853ed3321713ae8e 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/lib/perf/cpumap.c
+++ b/tools/lib/perf/cpumap.c
@@ -18,9 +18,13 @@ void perf_cpu_map__set_nr(struct perf_cpu_map *map, int nr_cpus)
 
 struct perf_cpu_map *perf_cpu_map__alloc(int nr_cpus)
 {
-       RC_STRUCT(perf_cpu_map) *cpus = malloc(sizeof(*cpus) + sizeof(struct perf_cpu) * nr_cpus);
+       RC_STRUCT(perf_cpu_map) *cpus;
        struct perf_cpu_map *result;
 
+       if (nr_cpus == 0)
+               return NULL;
+
+       cpus = malloc(sizeof(*cpus) + sizeof(struct perf_cpu) * nr_cpus);
        if (ADD_RC_CHK(result, cpus)) {
                cpus->nr = nr_cpus;
                refcount_set(&cpus->refcnt, 1);