[PATCH] tools: perf: fix leaking rec_argv in error cases

From: Martin Kepplinger
Date: Wed Sep 13 2017 - 15:14:42 EST


Let's free the allocated rec_argv in case we return early, in
order to avoid leaking memory.

This adds free() at a few very similar places across the tree
where it was missing.

Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martink@xxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c | 1 +
tools/perf/builtin-mem.c | 1 +
tools/perf/builtin-timechart.c | 4 +++-
tools/perf/builtin-trace.c | 1 +
4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c b/tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c
index 475999e48f66..bb1ee22bd221 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c
@@ -2732,6 +2732,7 @@ static int perf_c2c__record(int argc, const char **argv)
if (!perf_mem_events[j].supported) {
pr_err("failed: event '%s' not supported\n",
perf_mem_events[j].name);
+ free(rec_argv);
return -1;
}

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-mem.c b/tools/perf/builtin-mem.c
index 0f15634ef82c..6940490bc3f9 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-mem.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-mem.c
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ static int __cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv, struct perf_mem *mem)
if (!perf_mem_events[j].supported) {
pr_err("failed: event '%s' not supported\n",
perf_mem_events__name(j));
+ free(rec_argv);
return -1;
}

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-timechart.c b/tools/perf/builtin-timechart.c
index 4e2e61695986..01de01ca14f2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-timechart.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-timechart.c
@@ -1732,8 +1732,10 @@ static int timechart__io_record(int argc, const char **argv)
if (rec_argv == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;

- if (asprintf(&filter, "common_pid != %d", getpid()) < 0)
+ if (asprintf(&filter, "common_pid != %d", getpid()) < 0) {
+ free(rec_argv);
return -ENOMEM;
+ }

p = rec_argv;
for (i = 0; i < common_args_nr; i++)
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
index 771ddab94bb0..dd8eec4c755c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
@@ -2078,6 +2078,7 @@ static int trace__record(struct trace *trace, int argc, const char **argv)
rec_argv[j++] = "syscalls:sys_enter,syscalls:sys_exit";
else {
pr_err("Neither raw_syscalls nor syscalls events exist.\n");
+ free(rec_argv);
return -1;
}
}
--
2.11.0