[PATCH 1/2] perf c2c: Fix error masking and OOM handling in hpp_list__parse()

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>

hpp_list__parse() has two bugs:

1. The PARSE_LIST macro resets ret = 0 at the start of each invocation,
   so an error from output parsing is silently overwritten when the sort
   parsing block runs.  The function returns success with partially
   initialized state.

2. When the caller passes a non-NULL output_ or sort_ string, but
   strdup() returns NULL due to OOM, NULL is passed to PARSE_LIST which
   treats it as empty input (the "if (!_list) break" branch).  No error
   is returned.

Fix by checking strdup() return values before proceeding, and preserving
the first error across PARSE_LIST calls by checking ret and jumping to
the cleanup label.

Fixes: 2d388bd0c9d3 ("perf c2c report: Add stdio output support")
Reported-by: sashiko-bot <sashiko-bot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4.6
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c b/tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c
index c9584dbedf77afe8..332d360ca533424b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c
@@ -2093,8 +2093,18 @@ static int hpp_list__parse(struct perf_hpp_list *hpp_list,
 	char *sort   = sort_   ? strdup(sort_) : NULL;
 	int ret;
 
+	/* strdup() returns NULL on OOM, don't silently treat as empty */
+	if ((output_ && !output) || (sort_ && !sort)) {
+		ret = -ENOMEM;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
 	PARSE_LIST(output, c2c_hists__init_output);
+	if (ret)
+		goto out;
 	PARSE_LIST(sort,   c2c_hists__init_sort);
+	if (ret)
+		goto out;
 
 	/* copy sort keys to output fields */
 	perf_hpp__setup_output_field(hpp_list);
@@ -2111,6 +2121,7 @@ static int hpp_list__parse(struct perf_hpp_list *hpp_list,
 	perf_hpp__append_sort_keys(&hists->list);
 #endif
 
+out:
 	free(output);
 	free(sort);
 	return ret;
-- 
2.55.0