Patch "perf tools: Fix trigger class trigger_on()" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

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

perf tools: Fix trigger class trigger_on()

to the 4.9-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-trigger-class-trigger_on.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 10:39:04 +0200
Subject: perf tools: Fix trigger class trigger_on()

From: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>

commit de19e5c3c51fdb1ff20d0f61d099db902ff7494b upstream.

trigger_on() means that the trigger is available but not ready, however trigger_on() was making it ready. That can segfault if the signal comes before trigger_ready(). e.g. (USR2 signal delivery not shown)

  $ perf record -e intel_pt//u -S sleep 1
  perf: Segmentation fault
  Obtained 16 stack frames.
  /home/ahunter/bin/perf(sighandler_dump_stack+0x40) [0x4ec550]
  /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x36caf) [0x7fa76411acaf]
  /home/ahunter/bin/perf(perf_evsel__disable+0x26) [0x4b9dd6]
  /home/ahunter/bin/perf() [0x43a45b]
  /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x36caf) [0x7fa76411acaf]
  /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__xstat64+0x15) [0x7fa7641d2cc5]
  /home/ahunter/bin/perf() [0x4ec6c9]
  /home/ahunter/bin/perf() [0x4ec73b]
  /home/ahunter/bin/perf() [0x4ec73b]
  /home/ahunter/bin/perf() [0x4ec73b]
  /home/ahunter/bin/perf() [0x4eca15]
  /home/ahunter/bin/perf(machine__create_kernel_maps+0x257) [0x4f0b77]
  /home/ahunter/bin/perf(perf_session__new+0xc0) [0x4f86f0]
  /home/ahunter/bin/perf(cmd_record+0x722) [0x43c132]
  /home/ahunter/bin/perf() [0x4a11ae]
  /home/ahunter/bin/perf(main+0x5d4) [0x427fb4]

Note, for testing purposes, this is hard to hit unless you add some sleep() in builtin-record.c before record__open().

---
 tools/perf/util/trigger.h |    9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
  * States and transits:
  *
  *
- *  OFF--(on)--> READY --(hit)--> HIT
+ *  OFF--> ON --> READY --(hit)--> HIT
  *                 ^               |
  *                 |            (ready)
  *                 |               |

@@ -26,8 +26,9 @@ struct trigger {
 	volatile enum {
 		TRIGGER_ERROR		= -2,
 		TRIGGER_OFF		= -1,
-		TRIGGER_READY		= 0,
-		TRIGGER_HIT		= 1,
+		TRIGGER_ON		= 0,
+		TRIGGER_READY		= 1,
+		TRIGGER_HIT		= 2,
 	} state;
 	const char *name;
 };

@@ -49,7 +50,7 @@ static inline bool trigger_is_error(stru
 static inline void trigger_on(struct trigger *t)
 {
 	TRIGGER_WARN_ONCE(t, TRIGGER_OFF);
-	t->state = TRIGGER_READY;
+	t->state = TRIGGER_ON;
 }
 
 static inline void trigger_ready(struct trigger *t)

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

queue-4.9/perf-tools-fix-trigger-class-trigger_on.patch