This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled perf stat: Avoid metric-only segv to the 6.6-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-stat-avoid-metric-only-segv.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 574a962a2f19e9a0b82b975056eb0aabdcb69bc1 Author: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Feb 9 12:49:46 2024 -0800 perf stat: Avoid metric-only segv [ Upstream commit 2543947c77e0e224bda86b4e7220c2f6714da463 ] Cycles is recognized as part of a hard coded metric in stat-shadow.c, it may call print_metric_only with a NULL fmt string leading to a segfault. Handle the NULL fmt explicitly. Fixes: 088519f318be ("perf stat: Move the display functions to stat-display.c") Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@xxxxxxx> Cc: James Clark <james.clark@xxxxxxx> Cc: Kaige Ye <ye@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240209204947.3873294-4-irogers@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/stat-display.c b/tools/perf/util/stat-display.c index afe6db8e7bf4f..969ce40096330 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/stat-display.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/stat-display.c @@ -560,7 +560,7 @@ static void print_metric_only(struct perf_stat_config *config, if (color) mlen += strlen(color) + sizeof(PERF_COLOR_RESET) - 1; - color_snprintf(str, sizeof(str), color ?: "", fmt, val); + color_snprintf(str, sizeof(str), color ?: "", fmt ?: "", val); fprintf(out, "%*s ", mlen, str); os->first = false; }