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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 12:51:20 -0700
From: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
To: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] perf disasm: Fix capstone memory leak
On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 11:38 AM Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 05:37:18PM -0700, Ian Rogers wrote:
> > The insn argument passed to cs_disasm needs freeing. To support
> > accurately having count, add an additional free_count variable.
> >
> > Fixes: c5d60de1813a ("perf annotate: Add support to use libcapstone in powerpc")
> > Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
> > ---
> > tools/perf/util/disasm.c | 11 +++++++----
> > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/util/disasm.c b/tools/perf/util/disasm.c
> > index f05ba7739c1e..2c8063660f2e 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/util/disasm.c
> > +++ b/tools/perf/util/disasm.c
> > @@ -1627,12 +1627,12 @@ static int symbol__disassemble_capstone(char *filename, struct symbol *sym,
> > u64 start = map__rip_2objdump(map, sym->start);
> > u64 len;
> > u64 offset;
> > - int i, count;
> > + int i, count, free_count;
> > bool is_64bit = false;
> > bool needs_cs_close = false;
> > u8 *buf = NULL;
> > csh handle;
> > - cs_insn *insn;
> > + cs_insn *insn = NULL;
> > char disasm_buf[512];
> > struct disasm_line *dl;
> >
> > @@ -1664,7 +1664,7 @@ static int symbol__disassemble_capstone(char *filename, struct symbol *sym,
> >
> > needs_cs_close = true;
> >
> > - count = cs_disasm(handle, buf, len, start, len, &insn);
> > + free_count = count = cs_disasm(handle, buf, len, start, len, &insn);
> > for (i = 0, offset = 0; i < count; i++) {
> > int printed;
> >
> > @@ -1702,8 +1702,11 @@ static int symbol__disassemble_capstone(char *filename, struct symbol *sym,
> > }
> >
> > out:
> > - if (needs_cs_close)
> > + if (needs_cs_close) {
> > cs_close(&handle);
> > + if (free_count > 0)
> > + cs_free(insn, free_count);
>
> It seems cs_free() can handle NULL insn and 0 free_count (like regular free)
> so we can call it unconditionally.
No, on error from cs_disasm free_count gets assigned -1 and my
experience was things crashing.
Thanks,
Ian
>
> > + }
> > free(buf);
> > return count < 0 ? count : 0;
> >
> > --
> > 2.46.0.792.g87dc391469-goog
> >
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