Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | From | Zheng Zengkai <> | Subject | [PATCH -next] perf util: Fix memory leak in __parse_regs() | Date | Fri, 3 Jul 2020 17:33:44 +0800 |
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when using perf record option '-I' or '--user-regs=' along with argument '?' to list available register names, memory of variable 'os' allocated by strdup() needs to be released before __parse_regs() returns, otherwise memory leak will occur.
Fixes: bcc84ec65ad1 ("perf record: Add ability to name registers to record") Signed-off-by: Zheng Zengkai <zhengzengkai@huawei.com> --- tools/perf/util/parse-regs-options.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-regs-options.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-regs-options.c index e687497b3aac..a4a100425b3a 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/parse-regs-options.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-regs-options.c @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ __parse_regs(const struct option *opt, const char *str, int unset, bool intr) #endif fputc('\n', stderr); /* just printing available regs */ - return -1; + goto error; } #ifdef HAVE_PERF_REGS_SUPPORT for (r = sample_reg_masks; r->name; r++) { -- 2.20.1
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