This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled perf strbuf: Remove redundant va_end() in strbuf_addv() to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: perf-strbuf-remove-redundant-va_end-in-strbuf_addv.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 099be748865eece21362aee416c350c0b1ae34df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mattias Jacobsson <2pi@xxxxxx> Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2018 15:17:50 +0100 Subject: perf strbuf: Remove redundant va_end() in strbuf_addv() From: Mattias Jacobsson <2pi@xxxxxx> commit 099be748865eece21362aee416c350c0b1ae34df upstream. Each call to va_copy() should have one, and only one, corresponding call to va_end(). In strbuf_addv() some code paths result in va_end() getting called multiple times. Remove the superfluous va_end(). Signed-off-by: Mattias Jacobsson <2pi@xxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sanskriti Sharma <sansharm@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181229141750.16945-1-2pi@xxxxxx Fixes: ce49d8436cff ("perf strbuf: Match va_{add,copy} with va_end") Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <nobuhiro1.iwamatsu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/perf/util/strbuf.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) --- a/tools/perf/util/strbuf.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/strbuf.c @@ -109,7 +109,6 @@ static int strbuf_addv(struct strbuf *sb return ret; } len = vsnprintf(sb->buf + sb->len, sb->alloc - sb->len, fmt, ap_saved); - va_end(ap_saved); if (len > strbuf_avail(sb)) { pr_debug("this should not happen, your vsnprintf is broken"); va_end(ap_saved); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from 2pi@xxxxxx are queue-4.14/perf-strbuf-remove-redundant-va_end-in-strbuf_addv.patch