File perf-callchain-fix-segfault-in-thread__resolve_callchain_sample.patch of Package perf.16341

From: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 16:25:38 +0200
Subject: perf callchain: Fix segfault in thread__resolve_callchain_sample()
Git-commit: aceb98261ea7d9fe38f9c140c5531f0b13623832
Patch-mainline: v5.5-rc1
References: git-fixes

Do not dereference 'chain' when it is NULL.

  $ perf record -e intel_pt//u -e branch-misses:u uname
  $ perf report --itrace=l --branch-history
  perf: Segmentation fault

Fixes: e9024d519d89 ("perf callchain: Honour the ordering of PERF_CONTEXT_{USER,KERNEL,etc}")
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191114142538.4097-1-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
---
 tools/perf/util/machine.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/machine.c b/tools/perf/util/machine.c
index 7d2e211e376c..71ee078d30f4 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/machine.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/machine.c
@@ -2385,7 +2385,7 @@ static int thread__resolve_callchain_sample(struct thread *thread,
 	}
 
 check_calls:
-	if (callchain_param.order != ORDER_CALLEE) {
+	if (chain && callchain_param.order != ORDER_CALLEE) {
 		err = find_prev_cpumode(chain, thread, cursor, parent, root_al,
 					&cpumode, chain->nr - first_call);
 		if (err)