From: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>

In some cases when reading perf.data generated by much
older perf I got segfaults with dso->long_name being zero.
This patch fixes them for me.

Haven't tracked down the exact cause. I assume it's
some error path that doesn't set it.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
---
 tools/perf/util/machine.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/machine.c b/tools/perf/util/machine.c
index 52e9490..6266041 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/machine.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/machine.c
@@ -1106,7 +1106,7 @@ static int machine__process_kernel_mmap_event(struct 
machine *machine,
                if (__machine__create_kernel_maps(machine, kernel) < 0)
                        goto out_problem;
 
-               if (strstr(dso->long_name, "vmlinux"))
+               if (dso->long_name && strstr(dso->long_name, "vmlinux"))
                        dso__set_short_name(dso, "[kernel.vmlinux]", false);
 
                machine__set_kernel_mmap_len(machine, event);
-- 
1.9.3

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