This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled perf tools: Only increase index if perf_evsel__new_idx() succeeds to the 4.4-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-tools-only-increase-index-if-perf_evsel__new_idx-succeeds.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Mon Nov 6 10:22:56 CET 2017 From: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2017 22:37:46 +0000 Subject: perf tools: Only increase index if perf_evsel__new_idx() succeeds From: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 75fc5ae5cc53fff71041ecadeb3354a2b4c9fe42 ] Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485952447-7013-2-git-send-email-treeze.taeung@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c @@ -291,10 +291,11 @@ __add_event(struct list_head *list, int event_attr_init(attr); - evsel = perf_evsel__new_idx(attr, (*idx)++); + evsel = perf_evsel__new_idx(attr, *idx); if (!evsel) return NULL; + (*idx)++; evsel->cpus = cpu_map__get(cpus); evsel->own_cpus = cpu_map__get(cpus); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from treeze.taeung@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/perf-tools-only-increase-index-if-perf_evsel__new_idx-succeeds.patch