linux-kernel - [PATCH] perf stat: Fix memory leak on error path

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Message-Id: <20211107085444.3781604-1-irogers@google.com>
Date:   Sun,  7 Nov 2021 01:54:44 -0700
From:   Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>,
        linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     eranian@...gle.com, Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] perf stat: Fix memory leak on error path

Strdup is used to deduplicate, ensure it isn't overwriting an already
created string by freeing first.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
---
 tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c b/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c
index 69f3cf3b4a44..e4fb02b05130 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c
@@ -444,6 +444,7 @@ void perf_stat__collect_metric_expr(struct evlist *evsel_list)
 						"Add %s event to groups to get metric expression for %s\n",
 						metric_name,
 						counter->name);
+					free(printed);
 					printed = strdup(metric_name);
 				}
 				invalid = true;
-- 
2.34.0.rc0.344.g81b53c2807-goog