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Date:   Fri, 27 Nov 2020 15:45:40 +0800
From:   Zheng Zengkai <zhengzengkai@...wei.com>
To:     Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
CC:     <acme@...nel.org>, <mark.rutland@....com>,
        <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>, <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <huawei.libin@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] perf util: Fix memory leak in __parse_regs()

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> On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 05:33:44PM +0800, Zheng Zengkai wrote:
>> when using perf record option '-I' or '--user-regs='
>> along with argument '?' to list available register names,
>> memory of variable 'os' allocated by strdup() needs to be released
>> before __parse_regs() returns, otherwise memory leak will occur.
>>
>> Fixes: bcc84ec65ad1 ("perf record: Add ability to name registers to record")
>> Signed-off-by: Zheng Zengkai <zhengzengkai@...wei.com>
> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
>
> thanks,
> jirka
>
>> ---
>>   tools/perf/util/parse-regs-options.c | 2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-regs-options.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-regs-options.c
>> index e687497b3aac..a4a100425b3a 100644
>> --- a/tools/perf/util/parse-regs-options.c
>> +++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-regs-options.c
>> @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ __parse_regs(const struct option *opt, const char *str, int unset, bool intr)
>>   #endif
>>   				fputc('\n', stderr);
>>   				/* just printing available regs */
>> -				return -1;
>> +				goto error;
>>   			}
>>   #ifdef HAVE_PERF_REGS_SUPPORT
>>   			for (r = sample_reg_masks; r->name; r++) {
>> -- 
>> 2.20.1
>>
> .
>