Re: [PATCH v2] perf session: add missing evlist__delete when deleting a session

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Fri Jun 25 2021 - 07:54:24 EST


On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 10:39:34PM -0700, Ian Rogers wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 4:20 PM Riccardo Mancini <rickyman7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > ASan reports a memory leak caused by evlist not being deleted on exit in
> > perf-report, perf-script and perf-data.
> > The problem is caused by evlist->session not being deleted, which is
> > allocated in perf_session__read_header, called in perf_session__new if
> > perf_data is in read mode.
> > In case of write mode, the session->evlist is filled by the caller.
> > This patch solves the problem by calling evlist__delete in
> > perf_session__delete if perf_data is in read mode.

ugh, I'm surprised we did not free that.. and can't find
in git log we ever did ;-) I briefly check commands using
sessions and looks like it's correct

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>

>
> Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> It is messy that in read mode the session owns the evlist, but
> otherwise not. Imo, it'd be nice to make the ownership unconditional.

yep, would be nice

thanks,
jirka

>
> Thanks,
> Ian
>
> > Changes in v2:
> > - call evlist__delete from within perf_session__delete
> >
> > v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210621234317.235545-1-rickyman7@xxxxxxxxx/
> >
> > ASan report follows:
> >
> > $ ./perf script report flamegraph
> > =================================================================
> > ==227640==ERROR: LeakSanitizer: detected memory leaks
> >
> > <SNIP unrelated>
> >
> > Indirect leak of 2704 byte(s) in 1 object(s) allocated from:
> > #0 0x4f4137 in calloc (/home/user/linux/tools/perf/perf+0x4f4137)
> > #1 0xbe3d56 in zalloc /home/user/linux/tools/lib/perf/../../lib/zalloc.c:8:9
> > #2 0x7f999e in evlist__new /home/user/linux/tools/perf/util/evlist.c:77:26
> > #3 0x8ad938 in perf_session__read_header /home/user/linux/tools/perf/util/header.c:3797:20
> > #4 0x8ec714 in perf_session__open /home/user/linux/tools/perf/util/session.c:109:6
> > #5 0x8ebe83 in perf_session__new /home/user/linux/tools/perf/util/session.c:213:10
> > #6 0x60c6de in cmd_script /home/user/linux/tools/perf/builtin-script.c:3856:12
> > #7 0x7b2930 in run_builtin /home/user/linux/tools/perf/perf.c:313:11
> > #8 0x7b120f in handle_internal_command /home/user/linux/tools/perf/perf.c:365:8
> > #9 0x7b2493 in run_argv /home/user/linux/tools/perf/perf.c:409:2
> > #10 0x7b0c89 in main /home/user/linux/tools/perf/perf.c:539:3
> > #11 0x7f5260654b74 (/lib64/libc.so.6+0x27b74)
> >
> > Indirect leak of 568 byte(s) in 1 object(s) allocated from:
> > #0 0x4f4137 in calloc (/home/user/linux/tools/perf/perf+0x4f4137)
> > #1 0xbe3d56 in zalloc /home/user/linux/tools/lib/perf/../../lib/zalloc.c:8:9
> > #2 0x80ce88 in evsel__new_idx /home/user/linux/tools/perf/util/evsel.c:268:24
> > #3 0x8aed93 in evsel__new /home/user/linux/tools/perf/util/evsel.h:210:9
> > #4 0x8ae07e in perf_session__read_header /home/user/linux/tools/perf/util/header.c:3853:11
> > #5 0x8ec714 in perf_session__open /home/user/linux/tools/perf/util/session.c:109:6
> > #6 0x8ebe83 in perf_session__new /home/user/linux/tools/perf/util/session.c:213:10
> > #7 0x60c6de in cmd_script /home/user/linux/tools/perf/builtin-script.c:3856:12
> > #8 0x7b2930 in run_builtin /home/user/linux/tools/perf/perf.c:313:11
> > #9 0x7b120f in handle_internal_command /home/user/linux/tools/perf/perf.c:365:8
> > #10 0x7b2493 in run_argv /home/user/linux/tools/perf/perf.c:409:2
> > #11 0x7b0c89 in main /home/user/linux/tools/perf/perf.c:539:3
> > #12 0x7f5260654b74 (/lib64/libc.so.6+0x27b74)
> >
> > Indirect leak of 264 byte(s) in 1 object(s) allocated from:
> > #0 0x4f4137 in calloc (/home/user/linux/tools/perf/perf+0x4f4137)
> > #1 0xbe3d56 in zalloc /home/user/linux/tools/lib/perf/../../lib/zalloc.c:8:9
> > #2 0xbe3e70 in xyarray__new /home/user/linux/tools/lib/perf/xyarray.c:10:23
> > #3 0xbd7754 in perf_evsel__alloc_id /home/user/linux/tools/lib/perf/evsel.c:361:21
> > #4 0x8ae201 in perf_session__read_header /home/user/linux/tools/perf/util/header.c:3871:7
> > #5 0x8ec714 in perf_session__open /home/user/linux/tools/perf/util/session.c:109:6
> > #6 0x8ebe83 in perf_session__new /home/user/linux/tools/perf/util/session.c:213:10
> > #7 0x60c6de in cmd_script /home/user/linux/tools/perf/builtin-script.c:3856:12
> > #8 0x7b2930 in run_builtin /home/user/linux/tools/perf/perf.c:313:11
> > #9 0x7b120f in handle_internal_command /home/user/linux/tools/perf/perf.c:365:8
> > #10 0x7b2493 in run_argv /home/user/linux/tools/perf/perf.c:409:2
> > #11 0x7b0c89 in main /home/user/linux/tools/perf/perf.c:539:3
> > #12 0x7f5260654b74 (/lib64/libc.so.6+0x27b74)
> >
> > Indirect leak of 32 byte(s) in 1 object(s) allocated from:
> > #0 0x4f4137 in calloc (/home/user/linux/tools/perf/perf+0x4f4137)
> > #1 0xbe3d56 in zalloc /home/user/linux/tools/lib/perf/../../lib/zalloc.c:8:9
> > #2 0xbd77e0 in perf_evsel__alloc_id /home/user/linux/tools/lib/perf/evsel.c:365:14
> > #3 0x8ae201 in perf_session__read_header /home/user/linux/tools/perf/util/header.c:3871:7
> > #4 0x8ec714 in perf_session__open /home/user/linux/tools/perf/util/session.c:109:6
> > #5 0x8ebe83 in perf_session__new /home/user/linux/tools/perf/util/session.c:213:10
> > #6 0x60c6de in cmd_script /home/user/linux/tools/perf/builtin-script.c:3856:12
> > #7 0x7b2930 in run_builtin /home/user/linux/tools/perf/perf.c:313:11
> > #8 0x7b120f in handle_internal_command /home/user/linux/tools/perf/perf.c:365:8
> > #9 0x7b2493 in run_argv /home/user/linux/tools/perf/perf.c:409:2
> > #10 0x7b0c89 in main /home/user/linux/tools/perf/perf.c:539:3
> > #11 0x7f5260654b74 (/lib64/libc.so.6+0x27b74)
> >
> > Indirect leak of 7 byte(s) in 1 object(s) allocated from:
> > #0 0x4b8207 in strdup (/home/user/linux/tools/perf/perf+0x4b8207)
> > #1 0x8b4459 in evlist__set_event_name /home/user/linux/tools/perf/util/header.c:2292:16
> > #2 0x89d862 in process_event_desc /home/user/linux/tools/perf/util/header.c:2313:3
> > #3 0x8af319 in perf_file_section__process /home/user/linux/tools/perf/util/header.c:3651:9
> > #4 0x8aa6e9 in perf_header__process_sections /home/user/linux/tools/perf/util/header.c:3427:9
> > #5 0x8ae3e7 in perf_session__read_header /home/user/linux/tools/perf/util/header.c:3886:2
> > #6 0x8ec714 in perf_session__open /home/user/linux/tools/perf/util/session.c:109:6
> > #7 0x8ebe83 in perf_session__new /home/user/linux/tools/perf/util/session.c:213:10
> > #8 0x60c6de in cmd_script /home/user/linux/tools/perf/builtin-script.c:3856:12
> > #9 0x7b2930 in run_builtin /home/user/linux/tools/perf/perf.c:313:11
> > #10 0x7b120f in handle_internal_command /home/user/linux/tools/perf/perf.c:365:8
> > #11 0x7b2493 in run_argv /home/user/linux/tools/perf/perf.c:409:2
> > #12 0x7b0c89 in main /home/user/linux/tools/perf/perf.c:539:3
> > #13 0x7f5260654b74 (/lib64/libc.so.6+0x27b74)
> >
> > SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: 3728 byte(s) leaked in 7 allocation(s).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Riccardo Mancini <rickyman7@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > tools/perf/util/session.c | 5 ++++-
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/util/session.c b/tools/perf/util/session.c
> > index e59242c361ce..c36464d94387 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/util/session.c
> > +++ b/tools/perf/util/session.c
> > @@ -301,8 +301,11 @@ void perf_session__delete(struct perf_session *session)
> > perf_session__release_decomp_events(session);
> > perf_env__exit(&session->header.env);
> > machines__exit(&session->machines);
> > - if (session->data)
> > + if (session->data) {
> > + if (perf_data__is_read(session->data))
> > + evlist__delete(session->evlist);
> > perf_data__close(session->data);
> > + }
> > free(session);
> > }
> >
> > --
> > 2.31.1
> >
>