Re: [PATCH] perf metric: Fix some memory leaks

From: Ian Rogers
Date: Fri Sep 04 2020 - 00:03:00 EST


On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 8:21 PM Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I found some memory leaks while reading the metric code. Some are
> real and others only occur in the error path.

Thanks Namhyung! Is it possible to get test coverage?
Ian

> Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: John Garry <john.garry@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 9afe5658a6fa8 ("perf tools: Release metric_events rblist")
> Fixes: 4ea2896715e67 ("perf metric: Collect referenced metrics in struct metric_expr")
> Fixes: 71b0acce78d12 ("perf list: Add metric groups to perf list")
> Fixes: b18f3e365019d ("perf stat: Support JSON metrics in perf stat")
> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> I'm not sure it'd better have them together or split each fix as
> they came from different commits. Please let me know if you prefer
> split.
>
> tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c | 7 ++++++-
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c b/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c
> index 8831b964288f..7e31c4578ce8 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c
> @@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ static void metric_event_delete(struct rblist *rblist __maybe_unused,
>
> list_for_each_entry_safe(expr, tmp, &me->head, nd) {
> free(expr->metric_refs);
> + free(expr->metric_events);
> free(expr);
> }
>
> @@ -316,6 +317,7 @@ static int metricgroup__setup_events(struct list_head *groups,
> if (!metric_refs) {
> ret = -ENOMEM;
> free(metric_events);
> + free(expr);
> break;
> }
>
> @@ -530,6 +532,9 @@ void metricgroup__print(bool metrics, bool metricgroups, char *filter,
> continue;
> strlist__add(me->metrics, s);
> }
> +
> + if (!raw)
> + free(s);
> }
> free(omg);
> }
> @@ -1048,11 +1053,11 @@ static int parse_groups(struct evlist *perf_evlist, const char *str,
> parse_events_print_error(&parse_error, extra_events.buf);
> goto out;
> }
> - strbuf_release(&extra_events);
> ret = metricgroup__setup_events(&metric_list, metric_no_merge,
> perf_evlist, metric_events);
> out:
> metricgroup__free_metrics(&metric_list);
> + strbuf_release(&extra_events);
> return ret;
> }
>
> --
> 2.28.0.526.ge36021eeef-goog
>