Re: [PATCH 07/10] perf sort: Check return value of strdup()

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Fri Jan 11 2013 - 16:21:05 EST


Em Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 06:11:44PM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
> From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@xxxxxxx>
>
> When setup_sorting() is called, 'str' is passed to strtok_r() but it's
> not checked to have a valid pointer. As strtok_r() accepts NULL
> pointer on a first argument and use the third argument in that case,
> it can cause a trouble since our third argument, tmp, is not
> initialized.

Ok, but calling exit from here? Better to check it at the callers and
propagate the error, letting things like TUI/gui exit routines to
execute.

> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/perf/util/sort.c | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/sort.c b/tools/perf/util/sort.c
> index c02964cabdd0..9f827e25a2b5 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/sort.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/sort.c
> @@ -552,6 +552,11 @@ void setup_sorting(const char * const usagestr[], const struct option *opts)
> {
> char *tmp, *tok, *str = strdup(sort_order);
>
> + if (str == NULL) {
> + error("Not enough memory to setup sort keys");
> + exit(-1);
> + }
> +
> for (tok = strtok_r(str, ", ", &tmp);
> tok; tok = strtok_r(NULL, ", ", &tmp)) {
> if (sort_dimension__add(tok) < 0) {
> --
> 1.7.11.7
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