This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tools/kvm_stat: fix display of error when multiple processes are found to the 5.18-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: tools-kvm_stat-fix-display-of-error-when-multiple-pr.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 10ae01db75615479483fc1f09f3970477727bee3 Author: Dmitry Klochkov <kdmitry556@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Jun 14 15:11:41 2022 +0300 tools/kvm_stat: fix display of error when multiple processes are found [ Upstream commit 933b5f9f98da29af646b51b36a0753692908ef64 ] Instead of printing an error message, kvm_stat script fails when we restrict statistics to a guest by its name and there are multiple guests with such name: # kvm_stat -g my_vm Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/kvm_stat", line 1819, in <module> main() File "/usr/bin/kvm_stat", line 1779, in main options = get_options() File "/usr/bin/kvm_stat", line 1718, in get_options options = argparser.parse_args() File "/usr/lib64/python3.10/argparse.py", line 1825, in parse_args args, argv = self.parse_known_args(args, namespace) File "/usr/lib64/python3.10/argparse.py", line 1858, in parse_known_args namespace, args = self._parse_known_args(args, namespace) File "/usr/lib64/python3.10/argparse.py", line 2067, in _parse_known_args start_index = consume_optional(start_index) File "/usr/lib64/python3.10/argparse.py", line 2007, in consume_optional take_action(action, args, option_string) File "/usr/lib64/python3.10/argparse.py", line 1935, in take_action action(self, namespace, argument_values, option_string) File "/usr/bin/kvm_stat", line 1649, in __call__ ' to specify the desired pid'.format(" ".join(pids))) TypeError: sequence item 0: expected str instance, int found To avoid this, it's needed to convert pids int values to strings before pass them to join(). Signed-off-by: Dmitry Klochkov <kdmitry556@xxxxxxxxx> Message-Id: <20220614121141.160689-1-kdmitry556@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/tools/kvm/kvm_stat/kvm_stat b/tools/kvm/kvm_stat/kvm_stat index 5a5bd74f55bd..9c366b3a676d 100755 --- a/tools/kvm/kvm_stat/kvm_stat +++ b/tools/kvm/kvm_stat/kvm_stat @@ -1646,7 +1646,8 @@ Press any other key to refresh statistics immediately. .format(values)) if len(pids) > 1: sys.exit('Error: Multiple processes found (pids: {}). Use "-p"' - ' to specify the desired pid'.format(" ".join(pids))) + ' to specify the desired pid' + .format(" ".join(map(str, pids)))) namespace.pid = pids[0] argparser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=description_text,