Re: [PATCH v1] perf parse-events: Fix tracepoint name memory leak

[Namhyung Kim]

On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 9:40 AM Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Fuzzing found that an invalid tracepoint name would create a memory
> leak with an address sanitizer build:
> ```
> $ perf stat -e '*:o/' true
> event syntax error: '*:o/'
>                        \___ parser error
> Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events
>
>  Usage: perf stat [<options>] [<command>]
>
>     -e, --event <event>   event selector. use 'perf list' to list available events
>
> =================================================================
> ==59380==ERROR: LeakSanitizer: detected memory leaks
>
> Direct leak of 4 byte(s) in 2 object(s) allocated from:
>     #0 0x7f38ac07077b in __interceptor_strdup ../../../../src/libsanitizer/asan/asan_interceptors.cpp:439
>     #1 0x55f2f41be73b in str util/parse-events.l:49
>     #2 0x55f2f41d08e8 in parse_events_lex util/parse-events.l:338
>     #3 0x55f2f41dc3b1 in parse_events_parse util/parse-events-bison.c:1464
>     #4 0x55f2f410b8b3 in parse_events__scanner util/parse-events.c:1822
>     #5 0x55f2f410d1b9 in __parse_events util/parse-events.c:2094
>     #6 0x55f2f410e57f in parse_events_option util/parse-events.c:2279
>     #7 0x55f2f4427b56 in get_value tools/lib/subcmd/parse-options.c:251
>     #8 0x55f2f4428d98 in parse_short_opt tools/lib/subcmd/parse-options.c:351
>     #9 0x55f2f4429d80 in parse_options_step tools/lib/subcmd/parse-options.c:539
>     #10 0x55f2f442acb9 in parse_options_subcommand tools/lib/subcmd/parse-options.c:654
>     #11 0x55f2f3ec99fc in cmd_stat tools/perf/builtin-stat.c:2501
>     #12 0x55f2f4093289 in run_builtin tools/perf/perf.c:322
>     #13 0x55f2f40937f5 in handle_internal_command tools/perf/perf.c:375
>     #14 0x55f2f4093bbd in run_argv tools/perf/perf.c:419
>     #15 0x55f2f409412b in main tools/perf/perf.c:535
>
> SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: 4 byte(s) leaked in 2 allocation(s).
> ```
> Fix by adding the missing destructor.
>
> Fixes: 865582c3f48e ("perf tools: Adds the tracepoint name parsing support")
> Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to perf-tools-next, thanks!