Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [PATCH 5.16 1002/1039] perf metricgroup: Fix use after free in metric__new() | Date | Mon, 24 Jan 2022 19:46:31 +0100 |
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From: José Expósito <jose.exposito89@gmail.com>
commit e000ea0beffb5497425054b151369fe37a792ece upstream.
We shouldn't free() something that will be used in the next line, fix it.
Fixes: b85a4d61d3022608 ("perf metric: Allow modifiers on metrics") Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1494000 Signed-off-by: José Expósito <jose.exposito89@gmail.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211208171113.22089-1-jose.exposito89@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> --- tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c @@ -209,8 +209,8 @@ static struct metric *metric__new(const m->metric_name = pe->metric_name; m->modifier = modifier ? strdup(modifier) : NULL; if (modifier && !m->modifier) { - free(m); expr__ctx_free(m->pctx); + free(m); return NULL; } m->metric_expr = pe->metric_expr;
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