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| author | Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> | 2021-11-18 10:38:04 +0300 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2021-11-18 16:18:03 +0300 |
| commit | d9fc706108c15f8bc2d4ccccf8e50f74830fabd9 (patch) | |
| tree | 6429455dcf71a961111daffdf78c4f96da0c7aae /tools/perf/builtin-report.c | |
| parent | 0ca1f534a776cc7d42f2c33da4732b74ec2790cd (diff) | |
| download | linux-d9fc706108c15f8bc2d4ccccf8e50f74830fabd9.tar.xz | |
perf report: Fix memory leaks around perf_tip()
perf_tip() may allocate memory or use a literal, this means memory
wasn't freed if allocated. Change the API so that literals aren't used.
At the same time add missing frees for system_path. These issues were
spotted using leak sanitizer.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211118073804.2149974-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/builtin-report.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/builtin-report.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c index 8167ebfe776a..8ae400429870 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c @@ -619,14 +619,17 @@ static int report__browse_hists(struct report *rep) int ret; struct perf_session *session = rep->session; struct evlist *evlist = session->evlist; - const char *help = perf_tip(system_path(TIPDIR)); + char *help = NULL, *path = NULL; - if (help == NULL) { + path = system_path(TIPDIR); + if (perf_tip(&help, path) || help == NULL) { /* fallback for people who don't install perf ;-) */ - help = perf_tip(DOCDIR); - if (help == NULL) - help = "Cannot load tips.txt file, please install perf!"; + free(path); + path = system_path(DOCDIR); + if (perf_tip(&help, path) || help == NULL) + help = strdup("Cannot load tips.txt file, please install perf!"); } + free(path); switch (use_browser) { case 1: @@ -651,7 +654,7 @@ static int report__browse_hists(struct report *rep) ret = evlist__tty_browse_hists(evlist, rep, help); break; } - + free(help); return ret; } |