Re: [PATCH 1/4] perf metrictroup: Fix memory leak of metric_events

From: Ian Rogers
Date: Thu May 21 2020 - 12:11:09 EST


On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 8:54 AM Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
<acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Em Thu, May 21, 2020 at 09:32:15PM +0800, Wei Li escreveu:
> > From: Hongbo Yao <yaohongbo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Fix memory leak of metric_events in function metricgroup__setup_events()
>
> The leak is there but this code has changed a lot recently, please take
> a look at my perf/core branch and keep Ian Rogers in the loop,
>
> - Arnaldo

Thanks, I'd posted the same change here:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200508053629.210324-10-irogers@xxxxxxxxxx/
but it looks like it was mislaid. Arnaldo, I can re-post that patch or
Acked-by this patch. I'm easy either way.

Thanks,
Ian

> > Signed-off-by: Hongbo Yao <yaohongbo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c | 3 +++
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c b/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c
> > index 926449a7cdbf..69bf0f4d646e 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c
> > +++ b/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c
> > @@ -184,6 +184,7 @@ static int metricgroup__setup_events(struct list_head *groups,
> > if (!evsel) {
> > pr_debug("Cannot resolve %s: %s\n",
> > eg->metric_name, eg->metric_expr);
> > + free(metric_events);
> > continue;
> > }
> > for (i = 0; i < eg->idnum; i++)
> > @@ -191,11 +192,13 @@ static int metricgroup__setup_events(struct list_head *groups,
> > me = metricgroup__lookup(metric_events_list, evsel, true);
> > if (!me) {
> > ret = -ENOMEM;
> > + free(metric_events);
> > break;
> > }
> > expr = malloc(sizeof(struct metric_expr));
> > if (!expr) {
> > ret = -ENOMEM;
> > + free(metric_events);
> > break;
> > }
> > expr->metric_expr = eg->metric_expr;
> > --
> > 2.17.1
> >
>
> --
>
> - Arnaldo