linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/5] perf: cs-etm: Cleanup cs_etm__process_auxtrace

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Mon, 12 Dec 2022 15:55:12 +0000
From:   James Clark <james.clark@....com>
To:     linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Al.Grant@....com, James Clark <james.clark@....com>,
        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@...nel.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        John Garry <john.g.garry@...cle.com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Mike Leach <mike.leach@...aro.org>,
        Leo Yan <leo.yan@...aro.org>,
        Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        coresight@...ts.linaro.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/5] perf: cs-etm: Cleanup cs_etm__process_auxtrace_info()

hdr is a copy of 3 values of ptr and doesn't need to be long lived. So
just use ptr instead which means the malloc and the extra error path can
be removed to simplify things.

Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@....com>
---
 tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c | 26 +++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c b/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c
index bf8fbcec2d69..ab30591a6c6a 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c
@@ -2888,7 +2888,7 @@ int cs_etm__process_auxtrace_info(union perf_event *event,
 	int num_cpu, trcidr_idx;
 	int err = 0;
 	int i, j;
-	u64 *ptr, *hdr = NULL;
+	u64 *ptr = NULL;
 	u64 **metadata = NULL;
 	u64 hdr_version;
 
@@ -2914,15 +2914,8 @@ int cs_etm__process_auxtrace_info(union perf_event *event,
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
-	hdr = zalloc(sizeof(*hdr) * CS_HEADER_VERSION_MAX);
-	if (!hdr)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-
-	/* Extract header information - see cs-etm.h for format */
-	for (i = 0; i < CS_HEADER_VERSION_MAX; i++)
-		hdr[i] = ptr[i];
-	num_cpu = hdr[CS_PMU_TYPE_CPUS] & 0xffffffff;
-	pmu_type = (unsigned int) ((hdr[CS_PMU_TYPE_CPUS] >> 32) &
+	num_cpu = ptr[CS_PMU_TYPE_CPUS] & 0xffffffff;
+	pmu_type = (unsigned int) ((ptr[CS_PMU_TYPE_CPUS] >> 32) &
 				    0xffffffff);
 
 	if (dump_trace)
@@ -2934,10 +2927,8 @@ int cs_etm__process_auxtrace_info(union perf_event *event,
 	 * in anything other than a sequential array is worth doing.
 	 */
 	traceid_list = intlist__new(NULL);
-	if (!traceid_list) {
-		err = -ENOMEM;
-		goto err_free_hdr;
-	}
+	if (!traceid_list)
+		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	metadata = zalloc(sizeof(*metadata) * num_cpu);
 	if (!metadata) {
@@ -2945,6 +2936,9 @@ int cs_etm__process_auxtrace_info(union perf_event *event,
 		goto err_free_traceid_list;
 	}
 
+	/* Start parsing after the common part of the header */
+	i = CS_HEADER_VERSION_MAX;
+
 	/*
 	 * The metadata is stored in the auxtrace_info section and encodes
 	 * the configuration of the ARM embedded trace macrocell which is
@@ -3043,7 +3037,7 @@ int cs_etm__process_auxtrace_info(union perf_event *event,
 
 	etm->num_cpu = num_cpu;
 	etm->pmu_type = pmu_type;
-	etm->snapshot_mode = (hdr[CS_ETM_SNAPSHOT] != 0);
+	etm->snapshot_mode = (ptr[CS_ETM_SNAPSHOT] != 0);
 	etm->metadata = metadata;
 	etm->auxtrace_type = auxtrace_info->type;
 	etm->timeless_decoding = cs_etm__is_timeless_decoding(etm);
@@ -3110,7 +3104,5 @@ int cs_etm__process_auxtrace_info(union perf_event *event,
 	zfree(&metadata);
 err_free_traceid_list:
 	intlist__delete(traceid_list);
-err_free_hdr:
-	zfree(&hdr);
 	return err;
 }
-- 
2.25.1