linux-kernel - [PATCH] perf script: remove some bogus error handling

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Message-ID: <20170722073610.nnsyiwdcfl6bhn4t@mwanda>
Date:   Sat, 22 Jul 2017 10:36:10 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Cc:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] perf script: remove some bogus error handling

If script_desc__new() fails then the current code has a NULL
dereference.  We don't actually need to do any cleanup, we can just
return NULL.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-script.c b/tools/perf/builtin-script.c
index 83cdc0a61fd6..89ea2bc9b9be 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-script.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-script.c
@@ -2199,16 +2199,11 @@ static struct script_desc *script_desc__findnew(const char *name)
 
 	s = script_desc__new(name);
 	if (!s)
-		goto out_delete_desc;
+		return NULL;
 
 	script_desc__add(s);
 
 	return s;
-
-out_delete_desc:
-	script_desc__delete(s);
-
-	return NULL;
 }
 
 static const char *ends_with(const char *str, const char *suffix)