linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf tools: Decompress kernel module when reading DSO data

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Date:   Thu, 1 Jun 2017 13:29:31 +0200
From:   Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
To:     Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, kernel-team@....com,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf tools: Decompress kernel module when reading
 DSO data

On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 06:06:04PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:

SNIP

> @@ -399,6 +438,7 @@ static int __open_dso(struct dso *dso, struct machine *machine)
>  	int fd;
>  	char *root_dir = (char *)"";
>  	char *name = malloc(PATH_MAX);
> +	bool needs_unlink = false;
>  
>  	if (!name)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
> @@ -415,7 +455,23 @@ static int __open_dso(struct dso *dso, struct machine *machine)
>  	if (!is_regular_file(name))
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  
> +	if (dso__needs_decompress(dso)) {
> +		char buf[32];
> +
> +		fd = dso__decompress_kmodule(dso, name, buf, sizeof(buf));
> +		if (fd < 0)

			free(name)

> +			return -1;
> +
> +		close(fd);
> +		strcpy(name, buf);

also why not use name directly instead of buf?

jirka