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Message-ID: <20120905134937.GN19591@arwen.pp.htv.fi>
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 16:49:40 +0300
From: Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>
To: liang xie <xieliang007@...il.com>
Cc: acme@...stprotocols.net, mingo@...e.hu, paulus@...ba.org,
linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf tool: fix trivial memory leak while calling
system_path()
Hi,
On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 09:48:54PM +0800, liang xie wrote:
> A trivial memory leak fix while calling system_path
>
> Signed-off-by: Liang Xie <xieliang@...omi.com>
> ---
> tools/perf/util/exec_cmd.c | 6 ++++--
> tools/perf/util/help.c | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/exec_cmd.c b/tools/perf/util/exec_cmd.c
> index 7adf4ad..790cc95 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/exec_cmd.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/exec_cmd.c
> @@ -83,8 +83,8 @@ void setup_path(void)
> {
> const char *old_path = getenv("PATH");
> struct strbuf new_path = STRBUF_INIT;
> -
> - add_path(&new_path, perf_exec_path());
> + const char *exec_path = perf_exec_path();
> + add_path(&new_path, exec_path);
> add_path(&new_path, argv0_path);
>
> if (old_path)
> @@ -95,6 +95,8 @@ void setup_path(void)
> setenv("PATH", new_path.buf, 1);
>
> strbuf_release(&new_path);
> + if (exec_path)
free(NULL) is safe, the check isn't needed.
> + free((void *)exec_path);
this cast doesn't look necessary either.
--
balbi
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