Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] perf disasm: Fix capstone memory leak

[Namhyung Kim]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 05:37:18PM -0700, Ian Rogers wrote:
> The insn argument passed to cs_disasm needs freeing. To support
> accurately having count, add an additional free_count variable.
> 
> Fixes: c5d60de1813a ("perf annotate: Add support to use libcapstone in powerpc")
> Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  tools/perf/util/disasm.c | 11 +++++++----
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/disasm.c b/tools/perf/util/disasm.c
> index f05ba7739c1e..2c8063660f2e 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/disasm.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/disasm.c
> @@ -1627,12 +1627,12 @@ static int symbol__disassemble_capstone(char *filename, struct symbol *sym,
>  	u64 start = map__rip_2objdump(map, sym->start);
>  	u64 len;
>  	u64 offset;
> -	int i, count;
> +	int i, count, free_count;
>  	bool is_64bit = false;
>  	bool needs_cs_close = false;
>  	u8 *buf = NULL;
>  	csh handle;
> -	cs_insn *insn;
> +	cs_insn *insn = NULL;
>  	char disasm_buf[512];
>  	struct disasm_line *dl;
>  
> @@ -1664,7 +1664,7 @@ static int symbol__disassemble_capstone(char *filename, struct symbol *sym,
>  
>  	needs_cs_close = true;
>  
> -	count = cs_disasm(handle, buf, len, start, len, &insn);
> +	free_count = count = cs_disasm(handle, buf, len, start, len, &insn);
>  	for (i = 0, offset = 0; i < count; i++) {
>  		int printed;
>  
> @@ -1702,8 +1702,11 @@ static int symbol__disassemble_capstone(char *filename, struct symbol *sym,
>  	}
>  
>  out:
> -	if (needs_cs_close)
> +	if (needs_cs_close) {
>  		cs_close(&handle);
> +		if (free_count > 0)
> +			cs_free(insn, free_count);

It seems cs_free() can handle NULL insn and 0 free_count (like regular free)
so we can call it unconditionally.

Thanks,
Namhyung


> +	}
>  	free(buf);
>  	return count < 0 ? count : 0;
>  
> -- 
> 2.46.0.792.g87dc391469-goog
>