This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled perf report: Avoid SEGV in report__setup_sample_type() to the 6.9-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-report-avoid-segv-in-report__setup_sample_type.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit e0ee31e431a9a3777757065fb7b88862559b8232 Author: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue May 7 20:53:00 2024 -0700 perf report: Avoid SEGV in report__setup_sample_type() [ Upstream commit 45b4f402a6b782352c4bafcff682bfb01da9ca05 ] In some cases evsel->name is lazily initialized in evsel__name(). If not initialized passing NULL to strstr() leads to a SEGV. Fixes: ccb17caecfbd542f ("perf report: Set PERF_SAMPLE_DATA_SRC bit for Arm SPE event") Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: James Clark <james.clark@xxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240508035301.1554434-4-irogers@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c index dcd93ee5fc24e..5b684d2ab4be5 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c @@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ static int report__setup_sample_type(struct report *rep) * compatibility, set the bit if it's an old perf data file. */ evlist__for_each_entry(session->evlist, evsel) { - if (strstr(evsel->name, "arm_spe") && + if (strstr(evsel__name(evsel), "arm_spe") && !(sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_DATA_SRC)) { evsel->core.attr.sample_type |= PERF_SAMPLE_DATA_SRC; sample_type |= PERF_SAMPLE_DATA_SRC;