Patch "perf metrics: Avoid segv if default metricgroup isn't set" has been added to the 6.6-stable tree

gregkh at linuxfoundation.org gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Mon Dec 11 04:57:44 PST 2023


This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    perf metrics: Avoid segv if default metricgroup isn't set

to the 6.6-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-metrics-avoid-segv-if-default-metricgroup-isn-t-set.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable at vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From e2b005d6ec0e738df584190e21d2c7ada37266a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Rogers <irogers at google.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2023 10:23:29 -0800
Subject: perf metrics: Avoid segv if default metricgroup isn't set

From: Ian Rogers <irogers at google.com>

commit e2b005d6ec0e738df584190e21d2c7ada37266a0 upstream.

A metric is default by having "Default" within its groups. The default
metricgroup name needn't be set and this can result in segv in
default_metricgroup_cmp and perf_stat__print_shadow_stats_metricgroup
that assume it has a value when there is a Default metric group. To
avoid the segv initialize the value to "".

Fixes: 1c0e47956a8e ("perf metrics: Sort the Default metricgroup")
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers at google.com>
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Ilkka Koskinen <ilkka at os.amperecomputing.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan at linaro.org>
Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach at linaro.org>
Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain at linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang at linux.intel.com>
Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry at oracle.com>
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231204182330.654255-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
---
 tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c b/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c
index 0484736d9fe4..ca3e0404f187 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ static struct metric *metric__new(const struct pmu_metric *pm,
 
 	m->pmu = pm->pmu ?: "cpu";
 	m->metric_name = pm->metric_name;
-	m->default_metricgroup_name = pm->default_metricgroup_name;
+	m->default_metricgroup_name = pm->default_metricgroup_name ?: "";
 	m->modifier = NULL;
 	if (modifier) {
 		m->modifier = strdup(modifier);
-- 
2.43.0



Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from irogers at google.com are

queue-6.6/perf-vendor-events-arm64-ampereone-add-missing-defau.patch
queue-6.6/perf-metrics-avoid-segv-if-default-metricgroup-isn-t-set.patch
queue-6.6/perf-list-fix-json-segfault-by-setting-the-used-skip_duplicate_pmus-callback.patch



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