summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorIan Rogers <irogers@google.com>2021-11-18 10:38:04 +0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2021-11-18 16:18:03 +0300
commitd9fc706108c15f8bc2d4ccccf8e50f74830fabd9 (patch)
tree6429455dcf71a961111daffdf78c4f96da0c7aae /tools/perf/builtin-report.c
parent0ca1f534a776cc7d42f2c33da4732b74ec2790cd (diff)
downloadlinux-d9fc706108c15f8bc2d4ccccf8e50f74830fabd9.tar.xz
perf report: Fix memory leaks around perf_tip()
perf_tip() may allocate memory or use a literal, this means memory wasn't freed if allocated. Change the API so that literals aren't used. At the same time add missing frees for system_path. These issues were spotted using leak sanitizer. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211118073804.2149974-1-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/builtin-report.c')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-report.c15
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
index 8167ebfe776a..8ae400429870 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
@@ -619,14 +619,17 @@ static int report__browse_hists(struct report *rep)
int ret;
struct perf_session *session = rep->session;
struct evlist *evlist = session->evlist;
- const char *help = perf_tip(system_path(TIPDIR));
+ char *help = NULL, *path = NULL;
- if (help == NULL) {
+ path = system_path(TIPDIR);
+ if (perf_tip(&help, path) || help == NULL) {
/* fallback for people who don't install perf ;-) */
- help = perf_tip(DOCDIR);
- if (help == NULL)
- help = "Cannot load tips.txt file, please install perf!";
+ free(path);
+ path = system_path(DOCDIR);
+ if (perf_tip(&help, path) || help == NULL)
+ help = strdup("Cannot load tips.txt file, please install perf!");
}
+ free(path);
switch (use_browser) {
case 1:
@@ -651,7 +654,7 @@ static int report__browse_hists(struct report *rep)
ret = evlist__tty_browse_hists(evlist, rep, help);
break;
}
-
+ free(help);
return ret;
}