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* [PATCH] tools: lib: traceevent: parse-filter.c:  Cleaning up memory leak
@ 2014-06-01 11:36 Rickard Strandqvist
  2014-06-03  2:19 ` Steven Rostedt
  2014-06-03  3:11 ` Namhyung Kim
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Rickard Strandqvist @ 2014-06-01 11:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Namhyung Kim
  Cc: Rickard Strandqvist, Steven Rostedt, linux-kernel

There is a risk for memory leak in when something unexpected happens
and the function returns.

This was largely found by using a static code analysis program called cppcheck.

Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se>
---
 tools/lib/traceevent/parse-filter.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/parse-filter.c b/tools/lib/traceevent/parse-filter.c
index b502344..5865c9e 100644
--- a/tools/lib/traceevent/parse-filter.c
+++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/parse-filter.c
@@ -1492,8 +1492,10 @@ static int copy_filter_type(struct event_filter *filter,
 			arg->boolean.value = 0;
 
 		filter_type = add_filter_type(filter, event->id);
-		if (filter_type == NULL)
+		if (filter_type == NULL) {
+			free_arg(arg);
 			return -1;
+		}
 
 		filter_type->filter = arg;
 
-- 
1.7.10.4


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* Re: [PATCH] tools: lib: traceevent: parse-filter.c:  Cleaning up memory leak
  2014-06-01 11:36 [PATCH] tools: lib: traceevent: parse-filter.c: Cleaning up memory leak Rickard Strandqvist
@ 2014-06-03  2:19 ` Steven Rostedt
  2014-06-03  3:11 ` Namhyung Kim
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Steven Rostedt @ 2014-06-03  2:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Rickard Strandqvist; +Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Namhyung Kim, linux-kernel

On Sun,  1 Jun 2014 13:36:56 +0200
Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se> wrote:

> There is a risk for memory leak in when something unexpected happens
> and the function returns.
> 
> This was largely found by using a static code analysis program called cppcheck.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se>

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

-- Steve

> ---
>  tools/lib/traceevent/parse-filter.c |    4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/parse-filter.c b/tools/lib/traceevent/parse-filter.c
> index b502344..5865c9e 100644
> --- a/tools/lib/traceevent/parse-filter.c
> +++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/parse-filter.c
> @@ -1492,8 +1492,10 @@ static int copy_filter_type(struct event_filter *filter,
>  			arg->boolean.value = 0;
>  
>  		filter_type = add_filter_type(filter, event->id);
> -		if (filter_type == NULL)
> +		if (filter_type == NULL) {
> +			free_arg(arg);
>  			return -1;
> +		}
>  
>  		filter_type->filter = arg;
>  


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* Re: [PATCH] tools: lib: traceevent: parse-filter.c:  Cleaning up memory leak
  2014-06-01 11:36 [PATCH] tools: lib: traceevent: parse-filter.c: Cleaning up memory leak Rickard Strandqvist
  2014-06-03  2:19 ` Steven Rostedt
@ 2014-06-03  3:11 ` Namhyung Kim
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Namhyung Kim @ 2014-06-03  3:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Rickard Strandqvist
  Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Namhyung Kim, Steven Rostedt, linux-kernel

Hi Rickard,

On Sun,  1 Jun 2014 13:36:56 +0200, Rickard Strandqvist wrote:
> There is a risk for memory leak in when something unexpected happens
> and the function returns.
>
> This was largely found by using a static code analysis program called cppcheck.

Nice work!

Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

Thanks,
Namhyung

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