This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled perf dlfilter: Initialize addr_location before passing it to thread__find_symbol_fb() to the 6.5-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-dlfilter-initialize-addr_location-before-passin.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.5 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 11536c421a46c96e3576b8269959645ac5fc2f82 Author: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Jul 31 12:18:56 2023 +0300 perf dlfilter: Initialize addr_location before passing it to thread__find_symbol_fb() [ Upstream commit 42c6dd9d23019ff339d0aca80a444eb71087050e ] As thread__find_symbol_fb() will end up calling thread__find_map() and it in turn will call these on uninitialized memory: maps__zput(al->maps); map__zput(al->map); thread__zput(al->thread); Fixes: 0dd5041c9a0eaf8c ("perf addr_location: Add init/exit/copy functions") Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Disha Goel <disgoel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230731091857.10681-2-adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/dlfilter.c b/tools/perf/util/dlfilter.c index 46f74b2344dbb..798a53d7e6c9d 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/dlfilter.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/dlfilter.c @@ -166,6 +166,7 @@ static __s32 dlfilter__resolve_address(void *ctx, __u64 address, struct perf_dlf if (!thread) return -1; + addr_location__init(&al); thread__find_symbol_fb(thread, d->sample->cpumode, address, &al); al_to_d_al(&al, &d_al);