Re: [PATCH 3/6] perf event: initialize allocated memory for synthesizedevents

[David Ahern]

Arnaldo:

Don't see this one in your perf/core branch.

On 7/2/13 1:27 PM, David Ahern wrote:
> Fixes valgrind complaint:
>
> =3118== Syscall param write(buf) points to uninitialised byte(s)
> ==3118==    at 0x4E3F5B0: __write_nocancel (in /lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so)
> ==3118==    by 0x42F0EB: process_synthesized_event (builtin-record.c:89)
> ==3118==    by 0x44E81C: perf_event__synthesize_mmap_events (event.c:230)
> ==3118==    by 0x44F27C: perf_event__synthesize_threads (event.c:307)
> ==3118==    by 0x42FEEA: cmd_record (builtin-record.c:530)
> ==3118==    by 0x419D22: run_builtin (perf.c:319)
> ==3118==    by 0x4195A2: main (perf.c:376)
>
> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   tools/perf/util/event.c |    8 ++++----
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/event.c b/tools/perf/util/event.c
> index 5cd13d7..556b999 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/event.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/event.c
> @@ -316,11 +316,11 @@ int perf_event__synthesize_thread_map(struct perf_tool *tool,
>   	union perf_event *comm_event, *mmap_event;
>   	int err = -1, thread, j;
>
> -	comm_event = malloc(sizeof(comm_event->comm) + machine->id_hdr_size);
> +	comm_event = zalloc(sizeof(comm_event->comm) + machine->id_hdr_size);
>   	if (comm_event == NULL)
>   		goto out;
>
> -	mmap_event = malloc(sizeof(mmap_event->mmap) + machine->id_hdr_size);
> +	mmap_event = zalloc(sizeof(mmap_event->mmap) + machine->id_hdr_size);
>   	if (mmap_event == NULL)
>   		goto out_free_comm;
>
> @@ -375,11 +375,11 @@ int perf_event__synthesize_threads(struct perf_tool *tool,
>   	union perf_event *comm_event, *mmap_event;
>   	int err = -1;
>
> -	comm_event = malloc(sizeof(comm_event->comm) + machine->id_hdr_size);
> +	comm_event = zalloc(sizeof(comm_event->comm) + machine->id_hdr_size);
>   	if (comm_event == NULL)
>   		goto out;
>
> -	mmap_event = malloc(sizeof(mmap_event->mmap) + machine->id_hdr_size);
> +	mmap_event = zalloc(sizeof(mmap_event->mmap) + machine->id_hdr_size);
>   	if (mmap_event == NULL)
>   		goto out_free_comm;

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