Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] perf tools: Check NULL after zalloc() and Use zfree() instead of free() in parse-events.c

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Tue Jan 31 2017 - 08:34:39 EST


Em Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 08:38:30PM +0900, Taeung Song escreveu:
> 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().

You are doing more than one thing on this patch, don't do that.

Please split it for the "no functional changes" parts, i.e. things like

- free(path);
- path = NULL;
+ zfree(&path);

>From the ones that _change_ logic, like the first hunk:

path = zalloc(sizeof(*path));
+ if (!path)
+ return NULL;
path->system = malloc(MAX_EVENT_LENGTH);
if (!path->system) {
free(path);

This one as well changes logic:

@@ -1563,7 +1563,7 @@ perf_pmu__parse_check(const char *name)
r = bsearch(&p, perf_pmu_events_list,
(size_t) perf_pmu_events_list_num,
sizeof(struct perf_pmu_event_symbol), comp_pmu);
- free(p.symbol);
+ zfree(&p.symbol);
return r ? r->type : PMU_EVENT_SYMBOL_ERR;


> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 20 ++++++++++----------
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
> index 3c876b8..87a3e5a 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
> @@ -211,6 +211,8 @@ struct tracepoint_path *tracepoint_id_to_path(u64 config)
> closedir(evt_dir);
> closedir(sys_dir);
> path = zalloc(sizeof(*path));
> + if (!path)
> + return NULL;
> path->system = malloc(MAX_EVENT_LENGTH);
> if (!path->system) {
> free(path);
> @@ -252,8 +254,7 @@ struct tracepoint_path *tracepoint_name_to_path(const char *name)
> if (path->system == NULL || path->name == NULL) {
> zfree(&path->system);
> zfree(&path->name);
> - free(path);
> - path = NULL;
> + zfree(&path);
> }
>
> return path;
> @@ -1477,10 +1478,9 @@ static void perf_pmu__parse_cleanup(void)
>
> for (i = 0; i < perf_pmu_events_list_num; i++) {
> p = perf_pmu_events_list + i;
> - free(p->symbol);
> + zfree(&p->symbol);
> }
> - free(perf_pmu_events_list);
> - perf_pmu_events_list = NULL;
> + zfree(&perf_pmu_events_list);
> perf_pmu_events_list_num = 0;
> }
> }
> @@ -1563,7 +1563,7 @@ perf_pmu__parse_check(const char *name)
> r = bsearch(&p, perf_pmu_events_list,
> (size_t) perf_pmu_events_list_num,
> sizeof(struct perf_pmu_event_symbol), comp_pmu);
> - free(p.symbol);
> + zfree(&p.symbol);
> return r ? r->type : PMU_EVENT_SYMBOL_ERR;
> }
>
> @@ -1710,8 +1710,8 @@ static void parse_events_print_error(struct parse_events_error *err,
> fprintf(stderr, "%*s\\___ %s\n", idx + 1, "", err->str);
> if (err->help)
> fprintf(stderr, "\n%s\n", err->help);
> - free(err->str);
> - free(err->help);
> + zfree(&err->str);
> + zfree(&err->help);
> }
>
> fprintf(stderr, "Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events\n");
> @@ -2406,7 +2406,7 @@ void parse_events_terms__purge(struct list_head *terms)
>
> list_for_each_entry_safe(term, h, terms, list) {
> if (term->array.nr_ranges)
> - free(term->array.ranges);
> + zfree(&term->array.ranges);
> list_del_init(&term->list);
> free(term);
> }
> @@ -2422,7 +2422,7 @@ void parse_events_terms__delete(struct list_head *terms)
>
> void parse_events__clear_array(struct parse_events_array *a)
> {
> - free(a->ranges);
> + zfree(&a->ranges);
> }
>
> void parse_events_evlist_error(struct parse_events_evlist *data,
> --
> 2.7.4