From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> commit abaf1e0355abb050f9c11d2d13a513caec80f7ad upstream. While debugging a segfault on 'perf lock contention' without an available perf.data file I noticed that it was basically calling: perf_session__delete(ERR_PTR(-1)) Resulting in: (gdb) run lock contention Starting program: /root/bin/perf lock contention [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1". failed to open perf.data: No such file or directory (try 'perf record' first) Initializing perf session failed Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x00000000005e7515 in auxtrace__free (session=0xffffffffffffffff) at util/auxtrace.c:2858 2858 if (!session->auxtrace) (gdb) p session $1 = (struct perf_session *) 0xffffffffffffffff (gdb) bt #0 0x00000000005e7515 in auxtrace__free (session=0xffffffffffffffff) at util/auxtrace.c:2858 #1 0x000000000057bb4d in perf_session__delete (session=0xffffffffffffffff) at util/session.c:300 #2 0x000000000047c421 in __cmd_contention (argc=0, argv=0x7fffffffe200) at builtin-lock.c:2161 #3 0x000000000047dc95 in cmd_lock (argc=0, argv=0x7fffffffe200) at builtin-lock.c:2604 #4 0x0000000000501466 in run_builtin (p=0xe597a8 <commands+552>, argc=2, argv=0x7fffffffe200) at perf.c:322 #5 0x00000000005016d5 in handle_internal_command (argc=2, argv=0x7fffffffe200) at perf.c:375 #6 0x0000000000501824 in run_argv (argcp=0x7fffffffe02c, argv=0x7fffffffe020) at perf.c:419 #7 0x0000000000501b11 in main (argc=2, argv=0x7fffffffe200) at perf.c:535 (gdb) So just set it to NULL after using PTR_ERR(session) to decode the error as perf_session__delete(NULL) is supported. Fixes: eef4fee5e52071d5 ("perf lock: Dynamically allocate lockhash_table") Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@xxxxxxx> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mamatha Inamdar <mamatha4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@xxxxxxx> Cc: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZN4R1AYfsD2J8lRs@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/perf/builtin-lock.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/tools/perf/builtin-lock.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-lock.c @@ -1660,6 +1660,7 @@ static int __cmd_contention(int argc, co if (IS_ERR(session)) { pr_err("Initializing perf session failed\n"); err = PTR_ERR(session); + session = NULL; goto out_delete; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from acme@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-6.1/perf-sched-timehist-fix-missing-free-of-session-in-p.patch queue-6.1/perf-time-utils-fix-32-bit-nsec-parsing.patch queue-6.1/perf-sched-timehist-fixed-timestamp-error-when-unabl.patch queue-6.1/perf-lock-don-t-pass-an-err_ptr-directly-to-perf_session__delete.patch queue-6.1/perf-stat-display-iostat-headers-correctly.patch queue-6.1/perf-report-fix-segfault-when-sym-sort-key-is-not-used.patch queue-6.1/perf-hist-update-hist-symbol-when-updating-maps.patch queue-6.1/perf-mem-free-the-allocated-sort-string-fixing-a-lea.patch queue-6.1/perf-inject-fix-leader-sampling-inserting-additional.patch queue-6.1/libsubcmd-don-t-free-the-usage-string.patch queue-6.1/perf-sched-avoid-large-stack-allocations.patch queue-6.1/perf-lock-dynamically-allocate-lockhash_table.patch