Re: [PATCH] perf kvm: fix segfault by initializing file_name to NULL

[David Ahern]

On 2/27/13 9:31 PM, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> On 02/28/2013 11:29 AM, David Ahern wrote:
> > Dongsoo reported that perf-kvm was segfaulting. The bug was introduced by
> > commit 3786063 which moved file_name from struct perf_kvm which was
> > initialized on the stack to an uninitialized stack variable. Fix by
> > initializing.
> >
> > Needs to be applied to 3.7 and 3.8 as well.
>
> David, The bug has already been fixed by by Arnaldo, see:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=virt/kvm/kvm.git;a=commit;h=20914ce5b9e1ef4a35f1f09a2c9c8fb8eb1c4d86

very odd. Arnaldo's latest perf/urgent has the problem -- and no 
initialized variable. Seems to have been dropped somewhere.

David
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