It is undefined behavior to pass NULL as snprintf()'s fmt argument.
Here is an example to trigger the problem:
$ perf stat --metric-only -x, -e instructions -- sleep 1
insn per cycle,
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
With this patch:
$ perf stat --metric-only -x, -e instructions -- sleep 1
insn per cycle,
,
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Kaige Ye <ye@kaige.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/01CA7674B690CA24+20230804020907.144562-2-ye@kaige.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>