This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
arc: fix use of uninitialized arc_pmu
to the 4.1-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:
arc-fix-use-of-uninitialized-arc_pmu.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 7002f77541f877a5590615ceb3da32b114f14b62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 02:09:06 +0300
Subject: arc: fix use of uninitialized arc_pmu
From: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 7002f77541f877a5590615ceb3da32b114f14b62 upstream.
static arc_pmu in the arch/arc/kernel/perf_event.c is not initialized as
it's shadowed by a local variable of the same name in the
arc_pmu_device_probe.
Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@xxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 03c94fcf954d "ARC: perf: make @arc_pmu static global"
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arc/kernel/perf_event.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/arc/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/arc/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -266,7 +266,6 @@ static int arc_pmu_add(struct perf_event
static int arc_pmu_device_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
- struct arc_pmu *arc_pmu;
struct arc_reg_pct_build pct_bcr;
struct arc_reg_cc_build cc_bcr;
int i, j, ret;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jcmvbkbc@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.1/arc-fix-use-of-uninitialized-arc_pmu.patch
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