This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled perf inject: Fix itrace space allowed for new attributes to the 5.15-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-inject-fix-itrace-space-allowed-for-new-attributes.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From c29d9792607e67ed8a3f6e9db0d96836d885a8c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2021 09:14:57 +0200 Subject: perf inject: Fix itrace space allowed for new attributes From: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx> commit c29d9792607e67ed8a3f6e9db0d96836d885a8c5 upstream. The space allowed for new attributes can be too small if existing header information is large. That can happen, for example, if there are very many CPUs, due to having an event ID per CPU per event being stored in the header information. Fix by adding the existing header.data_offset. Also increase the extra space allowed to 8KiB and align to a 4KiB boundary for neatness. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211125071457.2066863-1-adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> [Adrian: Backport to v5.15] Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/perf/builtin-inject.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/tools/perf/builtin-inject.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-inject.c @@ -819,7 +819,7 @@ static int __cmd_inject(struct perf_inje inject->tool.ordered_events = true; inject->tool.ordering_requires_timestamps = true; /* Allow space in the header for new attributes */ - output_data_offset = 4096; + output_data_offset = roundup(8192 + session->header.data_offset, 4096); if (inject->strip) strip_init(inject); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx are queue-5.15/perf-inject-fix-itrace-space-allowed-for-new-attributes.patch