Re: [PATCH] perf tools: arm-spe: Fix uninitialized record error variable

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Mon Aug 13 2018 - 14:55:21 EST


Em Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 05:45:12PM -0500, Kim Phillips escreveu:
> The auxtrace init variable 'err' was not being initialized, leading
> perf to abort early in an SPE record command when there was no explicit
> error, rather only based whatever memory contents were on the stack.
> Initialize it explicitly on getting an SPE successfully, the same way
> cs-etm does.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> Hi Arnaldo, please apply to perf/urgent / stable series if at all
> possible. Thank you.

In such cases the best thing is to have a "Fixes: ..." so that this gets
automatically picked by the stabe trees, I'll try to find out what was
the patch that introduced this problem.

- Arnaldo