[PATCH v2] perf parse-events: fix 3 use after frees

From: Ian Rogers
Date: Sat Mar 14 2020 - 22:55:37 EST


Reproducible with a clang asan build and then running perf test in
particular 'Parse event definition strings'.

v2 frees the evsel->pmu_name avoiding a memory leak.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 1 +
tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 6 +++---
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index 816d930d774e..15ccd193483f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -1287,6 +1287,7 @@ void perf_evsel__exit(struct evsel *evsel)
perf_thread_map__put(evsel->core.threads);
zfree(&evsel->group_name);
zfree(&evsel->name);
+ zfree(&evsel->pmu_name);
perf_evsel__object.fini(evsel);
}

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
index a14995835d85..593b6b03785d 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
@@ -1449,7 +1449,7 @@ int parse_events_add_pmu(struct parse_events_state *parse_state,
evsel = __add_event(list, &parse_state->idx, &attr, NULL, pmu, NULL,
auto_merge_stats, NULL);
if (evsel) {
- evsel->pmu_name = name;
+ evsel->pmu_name = name ? strdup(name) : NULL;
evsel->use_uncore_alias = use_uncore_alias;
return 0;
} else {
@@ -1497,7 +1497,7 @@ int parse_events_add_pmu(struct parse_events_state *parse_state,
evsel->snapshot = info.snapshot;
evsel->metric_expr = info.metric_expr;
evsel->metric_name = info.metric_name;
- evsel->pmu_name = name;
+ evsel->pmu_name = name ? strdup(name) : NULL;
evsel->use_uncore_alias = use_uncore_alias;
evsel->percore = config_term_percore(&evsel->config_terms);
}
@@ -1547,7 +1547,7 @@ int parse_events_multi_pmu_add(struct parse_events_state *parse_state,
if (!parse_events_add_pmu(parse_state, list,
pmu->name, head,
true, true)) {
- pr_debug("%s -> %s/%s/\n", config,
+ pr_debug("%s -> %s/%s/\n", str,
pmu->name, alias->str);
ok++;
}
--
2.25.1.481.gfbce0eb801-goog