Patch "perf intel-pt: Fix segfault tracing transactions" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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

perf intel-pt: Fix segfault tracing transactions

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-intel-pt-fix-segfault-tracing-transactions.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 <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 13:57:48 +0300
Subject: perf intel-pt: Fix segfault tracing transactions

From: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>

commit 1342e0b7a6c1a060c593037fbac9f4b717f1cb3b upstream.

Tracing a workload that uses transactions gave a seg fault as follows:

  perf record -e intel_pt// workload
  perf report
  Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
  0x000000000054b58c in intel_pt_reset_last_branch_rb (ptq=0x1a36110)
  	at util/intel-pt.c:929
  929 ptq->last_branch_rb->nr = 0;
  (gdb) p ptq->last_branch_rb
  $1 = (struct branch_stack *) 0x0
  (gdb) up
  1148 intel_pt_reset_last_branch_rb(ptq);
  (gdb) l
  1143 if (ret)
  1144 pr_err("Intel Processor Trace: failed to deliver transaction event
  1145 ret);
  1146
  1147 if (pt->synth_opts.callchain)
  1148 intel_pt_reset_last_branch_rb(ptq);
  1149
  1150 return ret;
  1151 }
  1152
  (gdb) p pt->synth_opts.callchain
  $2 = true
  (gdb)
  (gdb) bt
   #0 0x000000000054b58c in intel_pt_reset_last_branch_rb (ptq=0x1a36110)
   #1 0x000000000054c1e0 in intel_pt_synth_transaction_sample (ptq=0x1a36110)
   #2 0x000000000054c5b2 in intel_pt_sample (ptq=0x1a36110)

Caused by checking the 'callchain' flag when it should have been the 'last_branch' flag. Fix that.

---
 tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -1127,7 +1127,7 @@ static int intel_pt_synth_transaction_sa
 		pr_err("Intel Processor Trace: failed to deliver transaction event, error %d\n",
 		       ret);
 
-	if (pt->synth_opts.callchain)
+	if (pt->synth_opts.last_branch)
 		intel_pt_reset_last_branch_rb(ptq);
 
 	return ret;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/perf-intel-pt-fix-segfault-tracing-transactions.patch