linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] perf-tools fixes for v6.17-rc5

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Message-ID: <20250905202012.2341155-1-namhyung@kernel.org>
Date: Fri,  5 Sep 2025 13:20:12 -0700
From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
	Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>,
	Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [GIT PULL] perf-tools fixes for v6.17-rc5

Hi Linus,

Please consider pulling the following changes in perf tools for v6.17.
This includes fixes for segfaults that I reported earlier.

Thanks,
Namhyung


The following changes since commit 2c369d91d0933aaff96b6b807b22363e6a38a625:

  perf symbol: Add blocking argument to filename__read_build_id (2025-08-25 15:07:18 -0700)

are available in the Git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools.git tags/perf-tools-fixes-for-v6.17-2025-09-05

for you to fetch changes up to ca81e74dc34734078d34485d4aa123561ba75b15:

  perf symbol-elf: Add support for the block argument for libbfd (2025-09-04 16:37:35 -0700)

----------------------------------------------------------------
perf-tools fixes for v6.17-rc5

This series contains fixes for use-after-free resulted in segfaults
after merging the bpf tree.  Also a couple of build and test fixes.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>

----------------------------------------------------------------
Ian Rogers (4):
      perf bpf-event: Fix use-after-free in synthesis
      perf bpf-utils: Constify bpil_array_desc
      perf bpf-utils: Harden get_bpf_prog_info_linear
      perf symbol-elf: Add support for the block argument for libbfd

James Clark (1):
      perf tests: Fix "PE file support" test build

Thomas Richter (1):
      perf test: Checking BPF metadata collection fails on version string

 tools/perf/tests/pe-file-parsing.c          |  4 +-
 tools/perf/tests/shell/test_bpf_metadata.sh |  2 +-
 tools/perf/util/bpf-event.c                 | 39 ++++++++++++------
 tools/perf/util/bpf-utils.c                 | 61 ++++++++++++++++++-----------
 tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c                | 10 +++--
 5 files changed, 76 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)