FAILED: patch "[PATCH] perf python scripting: Fix printable strings in python3" failed to apply to 4.9-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 4.9-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 6fcd5ddc3b1467b3586972ef785d0d926ae4cdf4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 22:11:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] perf python scripting: Fix printable strings in python3
scripts

Hagen reported broken strings in python3 tracepoint scripts:

  make PYTHON=python3
  perf record -e sched:sched_switch -a -- sleep 5
  perf script --gen-script py
  perf script -s ./perf-script.py

[..]
sched__sched_switch 7 563231.759525792 0 swapper prev_comm=bytearray(b'swapper/7\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00'), prev_pid=0, prev_prio=120, prev_state=, next_comm=bytearray(b'mutex-thread-co\x00'),

The problem is in the is_printable_array function that does not take the zero byte into account and claim such string as not printable, so the code will create byte array instead of string.

Committer testing:

After this fix:

sched__sched_switch 3 484522.497072626 1158680 kworker/3:0-eve prev_comm=kworker/3:0, prev_pid=1158680, prev_prio=120, prev_state=I, next_comm=swapper/3, next_pid=0, next_prio=120
Sample: {addr=0, cpu=3, datasrc=84410401, datasrc_decode=N/A|SNP N/A|TLB N/A|LCK N/A, ip=18446744071841817196, period=1, phys_addr=0, pid=1158680, tid=1158680, time=484522497072626, transaction=0, values=[(0, 0)], weight=0}

sched__sched_switch 4 484522.497085610 1225814 perf prev_comm=perf, prev_pid=1225814, prev_prio=120, prev_state=, next_comm=migration/4, next_pid=30, next_prio=0
Sample: {addr=0, cpu=4, datasrc=84410401, datasrc_decode=N/A|SNP N/A|TLB N/A|LCK N/A, ip=18446744071841817196, period=1, phys_addr=0, pid=1225814, tid=1225814, time=484522497085610, transaction=0, values=[(0, 0)], weight=0}

index 599a1543871d..13fdc51c61d9 100644
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ int is_printable_array(char *p, unsigned int len)
 
 	len--;
 
-	for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
+	for (i = 0; i < len && p[i]; i++) {
 		if (!isprint(p[i]) && !isspace(p[i]))
 			return 0;
 	}