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* [PATCH] perf stat: Fix memory leak on error path
@ 2021-11-07  8:54 Ian Rogers
  2021-11-07 15:33 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ian Rogers @ 2021-11-07  8:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Peter Zijlstra, Ingo Molnar, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo,
	Mark Rutland, Alexander Shishkin, Jiri Olsa, Namhyung Kim,
	John Garry, linux-perf-users, linux-kernel
  Cc: eranian, Ian Rogers

Strdup is used to deduplicate, ensure it isn't overwriting an already
created string by freeing first.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
---
 tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c b/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c
index 69f3cf3b4a44..e4fb02b05130 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c
@@ -444,6 +444,7 @@ void perf_stat__collect_metric_expr(struct evlist *evsel_list)
 						"Add %s event to groups to get metric expression for %s\n",
 						metric_name,
 						counter->name);
+					free(printed);
 					printed = strdup(metric_name);
 				}
 				invalid = true;
-- 
2.34.0.rc0.344.g81b53c2807-goog


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* Re: [PATCH] perf stat: Fix memory leak on error path
  2021-11-07  8:54 [PATCH] perf stat: Fix memory leak on error path Ian Rogers
@ 2021-11-07 15:33 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo @ 2021-11-07 15:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ian Rogers
  Cc: Peter Zijlstra, Ingo Molnar, Mark Rutland, Alexander Shishkin,
	Jiri Olsa, Namhyung Kim, John Garry, linux-perf-users,
	linux-kernel, eranian

Em Sun, Nov 07, 2021 at 01:54:44AM -0700, Ian Rogers escreveu:
> Strdup is used to deduplicate, ensure it isn't overwriting an already

s/overwriting/leaking/g

Right?

- Arnaldo

> created string by freeing first.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
> ---
>  tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c b/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c
> index 69f3cf3b4a44..e4fb02b05130 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c
> @@ -444,6 +444,7 @@ void perf_stat__collect_metric_expr(struct evlist *evsel_list)
>  						"Add %s event to groups to get metric expression for %s\n",
>  						metric_name,
>  						counter->name);
> +					free(printed);
>  					printed = strdup(metric_name);
>  				}
>  				invalid = true;
> -- 
> 2.34.0.rc0.344.g81b53c2807-goog

-- 

- Arnaldo

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