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

perf: Fix header.size for namespace events

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: perf-fix-header.size-for-namespace-events.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Fri Feb 23 11:45:09 CET 2018

From: Jiri Olsa jolsa@kernel.org Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2017 18:14:06 +0200 Subject: perf: Fix header.size for namespace events

From: Jiri Olsa jolsa@kernel.org

[ Upstream commit 34900ec5c9577cc1b0f22887ac7349f458ba8ac2 ]

Reset header size for namespace events, otherwise it only gets bigger in ctx iterations.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa jolsa@kernel.org Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) peterz@infradead.org Fixes: e422267322cd ("perf: Add PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES to include namespaces related info") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-nlo4gonz9d4guyb8153ukzt0@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- kernel/events/core.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -6719,6 +6719,7 @@ static void perf_event_namespaces_output struct perf_namespaces_event *namespaces_event = data; struct perf_output_handle handle; struct perf_sample_data sample; + u16 header_size = namespaces_event->event_id.header.size; int ret;

if (!perf_event_namespaces_match(event)) @@ -6729,7 +6730,7 @@ static void perf_event_namespaces_output ret = perf_output_begin(&handle, event, namespaces_event->event_id.header.size); if (ret) - return; + goto out;

namespaces_event->event_id.pid = perf_event_pid(event, namespaces_event->task); @@ -6741,6 +6742,8 @@ static void perf_event_namespaces_output perf_event__output_id_sample(event, &handle, &sample);

perf_output_end(&handle); +out: + namespaces_event->event_id.header.size = header_size; }

static void perf_fill_ns_link_info(struct perf_ns_link_info *ns_link_info,

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jolsa@kernel.org are

queue-4.14/perf-top-fix-window-dimensions-change-handling.patch queue-4.14/perf-fix-header.size-for-namespace-events.patch queue-4.14/perf-help-fix-a-bug-during-strstart-conversion.patch queue-4.14/perf-record-fix-c-f-options-for-cpu-event-aliases.patch