[PATCH 01/11] perf metric: Fix some memory leaks

From: Namhyung Kim
Date: Mon Sep 14 2020 - 23:18:42 EST


I found some memory leaks while reading the metric code. Some are
real and others only occur in the error path. When it failed during
metric or event parsing, it should release all resources properly.

Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: John Garry <john.garry@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: b18f3e365019d ("perf stat: Support JSON metrics in perf stat")
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c b/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c
index d03bac65a3c2..90d14c63babb 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c
@@ -529,6 +529,9 @@ void metricgroup__print(bool metrics, bool metricgroups, char *filter,
continue;
strlist__add(me->metrics, s);
}
+
+ if (!raw)
+ free(s);
}
free(omg);
}
@@ -1041,7 +1044,7 @@ static int parse_groups(struct evlist *perf_evlist, const char *str,
ret = metricgroup__add_metric_list(str, metric_no_group,
&extra_events, &metric_list, map);
if (ret)
- return ret;
+ goto out;
pr_debug("adding %s\n", extra_events.buf);
bzero(&parse_error, sizeof(parse_error));
ret = __parse_events(perf_evlist, extra_events.buf, &parse_error, fake_pmu);
@@ -1049,11 +1052,11 @@ static int parse_groups(struct evlist *perf_evlist, const char *str,
parse_events_print_error(&parse_error, extra_events.buf);
goto out;
}
- strbuf_release(&extra_events);
ret = metricgroup__setup_events(&metric_list, metric_no_merge,
perf_evlist, metric_events);
out:
metricgroup__free_metrics(&metric_list);
+ strbuf_release(&extra_events);
return ret;
}

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