[030/136] perf tools: Fix buffer allocation

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Oct 01 2009 - 21:57:58 EST


2.6.31-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>

commit a255a9981a8566a1efabec983b7811e937e662d2 upstream.

"perf top" cores dump on my dev machine, if run from a directory
where vmlinux is present:

*** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption: 0x085670d0 ***

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <4ABB6EB7.7000002@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
tools/perf/util/module.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/tools/perf/util/module.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/module.c
@@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ static int mod_dso__load_module_paths(st
len += strlen(uts.release);
len += strlen("/modules.dep");

- path = calloc(1, len);
+ path = calloc(1, len + 1);
if (path == NULL)
goto out_failure;



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