Patch "perf stat: Fix bug in handling events in error state" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

@@ -311,8 +311,12 @@ static int read_counter(struct perf_evse
 			struct perf_counts_values *count;
 
 			count = perf_counts(counter->counts, cpu, thread);
-			if (perf_evsel__read(counter, cpu, thread, count))
+			if (perf_evsel__read(counter, cpu, thread, count)) {
+				counter->counts->scaled = -1;
+				perf_counts(counter->counts, cpu, thread)->ena = 0;
+				perf_counts(counter->counts, cpu, thread)->run = 0;
 				return -1;
+			}
 
 			if (STAT_RECORD) {
 				if (perf_evsel__write_stat_event(counter, cpu, thread, count)) {

@@ -337,12 +341,14 @@ static int read_counter(struct perf_evse
 static void read_counters(void)
 {
 	struct perf_evsel *counter;
+	int ret;
 
 	evlist__for_each_entry(evsel_list, counter) {
-		if (read_counter(counter))
+		ret = read_counter(counter);
+		if (ret)
 			pr_debug("failed to read counter %s\n", counter->name);
 
-		if (perf_stat_process_counter(&stat_config, counter))
+		if (ret == 0 && perf_stat_process_counter(&stat_config, counter))
 			pr_warning("failed to process counter %s\n", counter->name);
 	}
 }

@@ -1221,7 +1221,7 @@ int perf_evsel__read(struct perf_evsel *
 	if (FD(evsel, cpu, thread) < 0)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	if (readn(FD(evsel, cpu, thread), count, sizeof(*count)) < 0)
+	if (readn(FD(evsel, cpu, thread), count, sizeof(*count)) <= 0)
 		return -errno;
 
 	return 0;

@@ -1239,7 +1239,7 @@ int __perf_evsel__read_on_cpu(struct per
 	if (evsel->counts == NULL && perf_evsel__alloc_counts(evsel, cpu + 1, thread + 1) < 0)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	if (readn(FD(evsel, cpu, thread), &count, nv * sizeof(u64)) < 0)
+	if (readn(FD(evsel, cpu, thread), &count, nv * sizeof(u64)) <= 0)
 		return -errno;
 
 	perf_evsel__compute_deltas(evsel, cpu, thread, &count);