linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/11] perf parse-event: Fix memory leak in evsel->unit

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Date:   Wed, 16 Sep 2020 16:12:24 +0900
From:   Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
To:     David Malcolm <dmalcolm@...hat.com>
Cc:     Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/11] perf parse-event: Fix memory leak in evsel->unit

Hello Ian and David,

Thank you for the good suggestions!

On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 4:56 AM David Malcolm <dmalcolm@...hat.com> wrote:
> Some ideas (with the caveat that I'm a GCC developer, and not a regular
> on LKML): can you capture the ownership status in the type system?
> I'm brainstorming here but how about:
>   typedef char *owned_string_t;
>   typedef const char *borrowed_string_t;
> This would at least capture the intent in human-readable form, and
> *might* make things more amenable to checking by a machine.  It's also
> less macro cruft.
> I take it that capturing the ownership status with a runtime flag next
> to the pointer in a struct is too expensive for your code?

Adding more random thoughts..

I think we can make it more generic like __attribute__((owned))
so that it can be applied to any pointers.  And we can use a
conventional macro like '__owned' in the declaration..

__owned char *name;
__owned char *strdup(const char *);
...

Thanks
Namhyung