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For some cases, the callchain provided by the kernel may be empty. So,
the callchain ip filtering code will cause a crash if we do not check
whether the struct ip_callchain pointer is NULL before accessing any
members.

This can be observed on a powerpc64le system running Fedora 27 as shown
below.

  # perf record -b -e cycles:u ls

Before:

  # perf report --branch-history

  perf: Segmentation fault
  -------- backtrace --------
  perf[0x1027615c]
  linux-vdso64.so.1(__kernel_sigtramp_rt64+0x0)[0x7fff856304d8]
  perf(arch_skip_callchain_idx+0x44)[0x10257c58]
  perf[0x1017f2e4]
  perf(thread__resolve_callchain+0x124)[0x1017ff5c]
  perf(sample__resolve_callchain+0xf0)[0x10172788]
  ...

After:

  # perf report --branch-history

  Samples: 25  of event 'cycles:u', Event count (approx.): 2306870
    Overhead  Source:Line            Symbol                   Shared Object
  +   11.60%  _init+35736            [.] _init                ls
  +    9.84%  strcoll...