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authorIan Rogers <irogers@google.com>2021-11-17 23:38:04 -0800
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2021-11-18 10:18:03 -0300
commitd9fc706108c15f8bc2d4ccccf8e50f74830fabd9 (patch)
tree6429455dcf71a961111daffdf78c4f96da0c7aae /tools/perf/util
parent0ca1f534a776cc7d42f2c33da4732b74ec2790cd (diff)
downloadlinux-d9fc706108c15f8bc2d4ccccf8e50f74830fabd9.tar.bz2
perf report: Fix memory leaks around perf_tip()
perf_tip() may allocate memory or use a literal, this means memory wasn't freed if allocated. Change the API so that literals aren't used. At the same time add missing frees for system_path. These issues were spotted using leak sanitizer. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211118073804.2149974-1-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/util.c14
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/util.h2
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/util.c b/tools/perf/util/util.c
index 37a9492edb3e..df3c4671be72 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/util.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/util.c
@@ -379,32 +379,32 @@ fetch_kernel_version(unsigned int *puint, char *str,
return 0;
}
-const char *perf_tip(const char *dirpath)
+int perf_tip(char **strp, const char *dirpath)
{
struct strlist *tips;
struct str_node *node;
- char *tip = NULL;
struct strlist_config conf = {
.dirname = dirpath,
.file_only = true,
};
+ int ret = 0;
+ *strp = NULL;
tips = strlist__new("tips.txt", &conf);
if (tips == NULL)
- return errno == ENOENT ? NULL :
- "Tip: check path of tips.txt or get more memory! ;-p";
+ return -errno;
if (strlist__nr_entries(tips) == 0)
goto out;
node = strlist__entry(tips, random() % strlist__nr_entries(tips));
- if (asprintf(&tip, "Tip: %s", node->s) < 0)
- tip = (char *)"Tip: get more memory! ;-)";
+ if (asprintf(strp, "Tip: %s", node->s) < 0)
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
out:
strlist__delete(tips);
- return tip;
+ return ret;
}
char *perf_exe(char *buf, int len)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/util.h b/tools/perf/util/util.h
index ad737052e597..9f0d36ba77f2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/util.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/util.h
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ int fetch_kernel_version(unsigned int *puint,
#define KVER_FMT "%d.%d.%d"
#define KVER_PARAM(x) KVER_VERSION(x), KVER_PATCHLEVEL(x), KVER_SUBLEVEL(x)
-const char *perf_tip(const char *dirpath);
+int perf_tip(char **strp, const char *dirpath);
#ifndef HAVE_SCHED_GETCPU_SUPPORT
int sched_getcpu(void);