Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf tools: Use zfree() instead of free() in parse-events.c

[Taeung Song]

On 01/30/2017 06:01 PM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 02:23:38PM +0900, Taeung Song wrote:
> > Currently there are several parts not checking NULL
> > after allocating with zalloc() or asigning NULL value
> > to a pointer variable after doing free().
> >
> > So I fill in code checking NULL and
> > use zfree() instead of free().
>
> can't see directly reasons for zfree usage,
> but it looks reasonable.. do you have any
> crash reports due to missing zfree?

No, Just I read source code util/parse-events.c
And I found several insufficiency, shortcoming
not checking NULL or assigning NULL value to a pointer
variable after free().
So, I think we can use zfree() insteadof free()+assigning NULL.

Change commit message to be more appropriate ?

Thanks,
Taeung