Re: [PATCH 1/9] perf evlist: Fix cpu/thread map leak

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Mon Sep 07 2020 - 07:35:06 EST


On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 01:29:29PM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 12:44:54PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> > Asan reported leak of cpu and thread maps as they have one more
> > refcount than released. I found that after setting evlist maps it
> > should release it's refcount.
> >
> > It seems to be broken from the beginning so I chose the original
> > commit as the culprit. But not sure how it's applied to stable trees
> > since there are many changes in the code after that.
> >
> > Fixes: 7e2ed097538c5 ("perf evlist: Store pointer to the cpu and thread maps")
> > Fixes: 4112eb1899c0e ("perf evlist: Default to syswide target when no thread/cpu maps set")
> > Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 11 ++++++++---
> > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
> > index e3fa3bf7498a..c0768c61eb43 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
> > +++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
> > @@ -946,6 +946,10 @@ int perf_evlist__create_maps(struct evlist *evlist, struct target *target)
> >
> > perf_evlist__set_maps(&evlist->core, cpus, threads);
> >
> > + /* as evlist now has references, put count here */
> > + perf_cpu_map__put(cpus);
> > + perf_thread_map__put(threads);
>
> nice catch, I checked perf_evlist__create_syswide_maps is doing this

because you fixed that :))) missed the rest of the patch.. sry

jirka

> correctly, but I think we might have the same issue in script's
> set_maps function
>
> thanks,
> jirka
>
> > +
> > return 0;
> >
> > out_delete_threads:
> > @@ -1273,11 +1277,12 @@ static int perf_evlist__create_syswide_maps(struct evlist *evlist)
> > goto out_put;
> >
> > perf_evlist__set_maps(&evlist->core, cpus, threads);
> > -out:
> > - return err;
> > +
> > + perf_thread_map__put(threads);
> > out_put:
> > perf_cpu_map__put(cpus);
> > - goto out;
> > +out:
> > + return err;
> > }
> >
> > int evlist__open(struct evlist *evlist)
> > --
> > 2.28.0.526.ge36021eeef-goog
> >