Re: [PATCH 05/11] perf parse-event: Fix memory leak in evsel->unit

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Tue Sep 15 2020 - 08:23:22 EST


Em Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 12:18:13PM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
> The evsel->unit borrows a pointer of pmu event or alias instead of
> owns a string. But tool event (duration_time) passes a result of
> strdup() caused a leak.
>
> It was found by ASAN during metric test:

Thanks, applied.

> Direct leak of 210 byte(s) in 70 object(s) allocated from:
> #0 0x7fe366fca0b5 in strdup (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libasan.so.5+0x920b5)
> #1 0x559fbbcc6ea3 in add_event_tool util/parse-events.c:414
> #2 0x559fbbcc6ea3 in parse_events_add_tool util/parse-events.c:1414
> #3 0x559fbbd8474d in parse_events_parse util/parse-events.y:439
> #4 0x559fbbcc95da in parse_events__scanner util/parse-events.c:2096
> #5 0x559fbbcc95da in __parse_events util/parse-events.c:2141
> #6 0x559fbbc28555 in check_parse_id tests/pmu-events.c:406
> #7 0x559fbbc28555 in check_parse_id tests/pmu-events.c:393
> #8 0x559fbbc28555 in check_parse_cpu tests/pmu-events.c:415
> #9 0x559fbbc28555 in test_parsing tests/pmu-events.c:498
> #10 0x559fbbc0109b in run_test tests/builtin-test.c:410
> #11 0x559fbbc0109b in test_and_print tests/builtin-test.c:440
> #12 0x559fbbc03e69 in __cmd_test tests/builtin-test.c:695
> #13 0x559fbbc03e69 in cmd_test tests/builtin-test.c:807
> #14 0x559fbbc691f4 in run_builtin /home/namhyung/project/linux/tools/perf/perf.c:312
> #15 0x559fbbb071a8 in handle_internal_command /home/namhyung/project/linux/tools/perf/perf.c:364
> #16 0x559fbbb071a8 in run_argv /home/namhyung/project/linux/tools/perf/perf.c:408
> #17 0x559fbbb071a8 in main /home/namhyung/project/linux/tools/perf/perf.c:538
> #18 0x7fe366b68cc9 in __libc_start_main ../csu/libc-start.c:308
>
> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: f0fbb114e3025 ("perf stat: Implement duration_time as a proper event")
> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
> index b35e4bb1cecb..ece321ccf599 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
> @@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ static int add_event_tool(struct list_head *list, int *idx,
> return -ENOMEM;
> evsel->tool_event = tool_event;
> if (tool_event == PERF_TOOL_DURATION_TIME)
> - evsel->unit = strdup("ns");
> + evsel->unit = "ns";
> return 0;
> }
>
> --
> 2.28.0.618.gf4bc123cb7-goog
>

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- Arnaldo