Patch "perf tools: Fix checking asprintf return value" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    perf tools: Fix checking asprintf return value

to the 4.4-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-tools-fix-checking-asprintf-return-value.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

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


>From 26dee028d365fbc0e3326606a8520260b4462381 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 11:43:52 +0000
Subject: perf tools: Fix checking asprintf return value

From: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>

commit 26dee028d365fbc0e3326606a8520260b4462381 upstream.

According to man pages, asprintf returns -1 when failure. This patch
fixes two incorrect return value checker.

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Cc: Cody P Schafer <dev@codyps.com>
Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
Cc: Jeremie Galarneau <jeremie.galarneau@efficios.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@nexedi.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Fixes: ffeb883e5662 ("perf tools: Show proper error message for wrong terms of hw/sw events")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455882283-79592-5-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 tools/perf/util/parse-events.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
@@ -2101,11 +2101,11 @@ char *parse_events_formats_error_string(
 
 	/* valid terms */
 	if (additional_terms) {
-		if (!asprintf(&str, "valid terms: %s,%s",
-			      additional_terms, static_terms))
+		if (asprintf(&str, "valid terms: %s,%s",
+			     additional_terms, static_terms) < 0)
 			goto fail;
 	} else {
-		if (!asprintf(&str, "valid terms: %s", static_terms))
+		if (asprintf(&str, "valid terms: %s", static_terms) < 0)
 			goto fail;
 	}
 	return str;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from wangnan0@huawei.com are

queue-4.4/perf-tools-fix-checking-asprintf-return-value.patch