This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
perf stat: Avoid metric-only segv
to the 6.1-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-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 8de29f4662d7fd7805e9452f5b7be641b3a9e604
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 bc866d18973e4..ef9a3df459657 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/stat-display.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/stat-display.c
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ 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);
}
