Patch "perf tools: Fix checking asprintf return value" has been added to the 4.5-stable tree

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 4.5-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-4.5 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Wang Nan <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 11:43:52 +0000
Subject: perf tools: Fix checking asprintf return value

From: Wang Nan <[email protected]>

commit 26dee028d365fbc0e3326606a8520260b4462381 upstream.

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

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

@@ -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 [email protected] are

queue-4.5/perf-tools-fix-checking-asprintf-return-value.patch