This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
perf help: Fix a bug during strstart() conversion
to the 4.14-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-help-fix-a-bug-during-strstart-conversion.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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 Fri Feb 23 11:45:09 CET 2018
From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 09:15:42 +0900
Subject: perf help: Fix a bug during strstart() conversion
From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit af98f2273fd0af31ce327cd1406b67c7be0b6734 ]
The commit 8e99b6d4533c changed prefixcmp() to strstart() but missed to
change the return value in some place. It makes perf help print
annoying output even for sane config items like below:
$ perf help
'.root': unsupported man viewer sub key.
...
Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sihyeon Jang <uneedsihyeon@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: kernel-team@xxxxxxx
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171114001542.GA16464@sejong
Fixes: 8e99b6d4533c ("tools include: Adopt strstarts() from the kernel")
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/builtin-help.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-help.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-help.c
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ static int perf_help_config(const char *
add_man_viewer(value);
return 0;
}
- if (!strstarts(var, "man."))
+ if (strstarts(var, "man."))
return add_man_viewer_info(var, value);
return 0;
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ static const char *cmd_to_page(const cha
if (!perf_cmd)
return "perf";
- else if (!strstarts(perf_cmd, "perf"))
+ else if (strstarts(perf_cmd, "perf"))
return perf_cmd;
return asprintf(&s, "perf-%s", perf_cmd) < 0 ? NULL : s;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.14/perf-top-fix-window-dimensions-change-handling.patch
queue-4.14/perf-annotate-do-not-truncate-instruction-names-at-6-chars.patch
queue-4.14/perf-help-fix-a-bug-during-strstart-conversion.patch