linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] perf fix

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Date:   Thu, 12 Sep 2019 10:39:03 +0200
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] perf fix

Linus,

Please pull the latest perf-urgent-for-linus git tree from:

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git perf-urgent-for-linus

   # HEAD: 310aa0a25b338b3100c94880c9a69bec8ce8c3ae perf/hw_breakpoint: Fix arch_hw_breakpoint use-before-initialization

Fix an initialization bug in the hw-breakpoints, which triggered on the 
ARM platform.

 Thanks,

	Ingo

------------------>
Mark-PK Tsai (1):
      perf/hw_breakpoint: Fix arch_hw_breakpoint use-before-initialization


 kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c b/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c
index c5cd852fe86b..3cc8416ec844 100644
--- a/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c
+++ b/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c
@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ static int hw_breakpoint_parse(struct perf_event *bp,
 
 int register_perf_hw_breakpoint(struct perf_event *bp)
 {
-	struct arch_hw_breakpoint hw;
+	struct arch_hw_breakpoint hw = { };
 	int err;
 
 	err = reserve_bp_slot(bp);
@@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ int
 modify_user_hw_breakpoint_check(struct perf_event *bp, struct perf_event_attr *attr,
 			        bool check)
 {
-	struct arch_hw_breakpoint hw;
+	struct arch_hw_breakpoint hw = { };
 	int err;
 
 	err = hw_breakpoint_parse(bp, attr, &hw);