perf/core: Fix potential NULL deref

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Fixes: 32671e3 ("perf: Disallow mis-matched inherited group reads")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

Author: Peter Zijlstra

kernel/events/core.c

@@ -13372,7 +13372,8 @@ static int inherit_group(struct perf_event *parent_event,
 		    !perf_get_aux_event(child_ctr, leader))
 			return -EINVAL;
 	}
-	leader->group_generation = parent_event->group_generation;
+	if (leader)
+		leader->group_generation = parent_event->group_generation;
 	return 0;
 }