linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] perf, evlist: Fix access of freed id arrays

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Date:   Tue, 24 Sep 2019 09:05:44 -0700
From:   Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Cc:     Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, acme@...nel.org,
        jolsa@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] perf, evlist: Fix access of freed id arrays

> id/sample_id arrays are not created when evsel is open but
> we free it at close
> 
> for now this fix seems correct to me.. we are moving id/sample_id
> arrays under libperf, I'll make a note to check on close and reopen
> of evsel and add some tests for that
> 
> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>

It looks like there are still some bogus closes in such a case, at least valgrind
complains about some close(-1). But these should be harmless, so I guess
we can leave them for now.

-Andi