Re: [PATCH] tools lib traceevent: Fix double free in event_read_fields()

[Steven Rostedt]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2022 16:59:37 +0800
Shang XiaoJing <shangxiaojing@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There is a double free in event_read_fields(). After calling free_token()
> to free the token, if append() failed, then goto fail, which will call
> free_token() again. Triggered by compiling with perf and run "perf sched
> record". Fix the double free by goto fail_expect instead of fail while
> append() failed, which won't call redundant free_token().
> 
> BUG: double free
> free(): double free detected in tcache 2
> Aborted
> 
> Fixes: d286447f23cd ("tools lib traceevent: Handle realloc() failure path")
> Signed-off-by: Shang XiaoJing <shangxiaojing@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c | 2 +-

tool/lib/traceevent is deprecated.

Can you send this patch to linux-trace-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx against

  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libtrace/libtraceevent.git/

Thanks!

-- Steve


>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c b/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c
> index 8e24c4c78c7f..e0a5a22fe702 100644
> --- a/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c
> +++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c
> @@ -1594,7 +1594,7 @@ static int event_read_fields(struct tep_event *event, struct tep_format_field **
>  			ret = append(&brackets, "", "]");
>  			if (ret < 0) {
>  				free(brackets);
> -				goto fail;
> +				goto fail_expect;
>  			}
>  
>  			/* add brackets to type */