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authorAditya Gupta <adityag@linux.ibm.com>2024-09-04 09:18:30 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2024-10-17 16:24:13 +0300
commitab656dd9fc0d6bc3ef76b3a409a244da6c57cfeb (patch)
tree0a43124ff196cd9514c957f4c1a36293ddc48390 /tools/lib
parent03cec19f546de992f5685afe6ef55741795d068b (diff)
downloadlinux-ab656dd9fc0d6bc3ef76b3a409a244da6c57cfeb.tar.xz
libsubcmd: Don't free the usage string
[ Upstream commit 1a5efc9e13f357abc396dbf445b25d08914c8060 ] Currently, commands which depend on 'parse_options_subcommand()' don't show the usage string, and instead show '(null)' $ ./perf sched Usage: (null) -D, --dump-raw-trace dump raw trace in ASCII -f, --force don't complain, do it -i, --input <file> input file name -v, --verbose be more verbose (show symbol address, etc) 'parse_options_subcommand()' is generally expected to initialise the usage string, with information in the passed 'subcommands[]' array This behaviour was changed in: 230a7a71f92212e7 ("libsubcmd: Fix parse-options memory leak") Where the generated usage string is deallocated, and usage[0] string is reassigned as NULL. As discussed in [1], free the allocated usage string in the main function itself, and don't reset usage string to NULL in parse_options_subcommand With this change, the behaviour is restored. $ ./perf sched Usage: perf sched [<options>] {record|latency|map|replay|script|timehist} -D, --dump-raw-trace dump raw trace in ASCII -f, --force don't complain, do it -i, --input <file> input file name -v, --verbose be more verbose (show symbol address, etc) [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/htq5vhx6piet4nuq2mmhk7fs2bhfykv52dbppwxmo3s7du2odf@styd27tioc6e/ Fixes: 230a7a71f92212e7 ("libsubcmd: Fix parse-options memory leak") Suggested-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Aditya Gupta <adityag@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Disha Goel <disgoel@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240904061836.55873-2-adityag@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/lib')
-rw-r--r--tools/lib/subcmd/parse-options.c8
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/tools/lib/subcmd/parse-options.c b/tools/lib/subcmd/parse-options.c
index d943d78b787e..9fa75943f2ed 100644
--- a/tools/lib/subcmd/parse-options.c
+++ b/tools/lib/subcmd/parse-options.c
@@ -633,10 +633,11 @@ int parse_options_subcommand(int argc, const char **argv, const struct option *o
const char *const subcommands[], const char *usagestr[], int flags)
{
struct parse_opt_ctx_t ctx;
- char *buf = NULL;
/* build usage string if it's not provided */
if (subcommands && !usagestr[0]) {
+ char *buf = NULL;
+
astrcatf(&buf, "%s %s [<options>] {", subcmd_config.exec_name, argv[0]);
for (int i = 0; subcommands[i]; i++) {
@@ -678,10 +679,7 @@ int parse_options_subcommand(int argc, const char **argv, const struct option *o
astrcatf(&error_buf, "unknown switch `%c'", *ctx.opt);
usage_with_options(usagestr, options);
}
- if (buf) {
- usagestr[0] = NULL;
- free(buf);
- }
+
return parse_options_end(&ctx);
}