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authorAdrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>2022-08-09 10:07:00 +0200
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2022-08-10 19:29:23 +0200
commit2e828582b81f5bc76a4fe8e7812df259ab208302 (patch)
tree1bfff325125d0ab5c3041061d5463ecd3db6f7ba /tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
parentperf machine: Fix missing free of machine->kallsyms_filename (diff)
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perf parse-events: Fix segfault when event parser gets an error
parse_events() is often called with parse_events_error set to NULL. Make parse_events_error__handle() not segfault in that case. A subsequent patch changes to avoid passing NULL in the first place. Fixes: 43eb05d066795bdf ("perf tests: Support 'Track with sched_switch' test for hybrid") Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220809080702.6921-2-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to '')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/parse-events.c14
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
index 206c76623c06..dfc7d7a0ec4e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
@@ -2256,9 +2256,12 @@ void parse_events_error__exit(struct parse_events_error *err)
void parse_events_error__handle(struct parse_events_error *err, int idx,
char *str, char *help)
{
- if (WARN(!str, "WARNING: failed to provide error string\n")) {
- free(help);
- return;
+ if (WARN(!str, "WARNING: failed to provide error string\n"))
+ goto out_free;
+ if (!err) {
+ /* Assume caller does not want message printed */
+ pr_debug("event syntax error: %s\n", str);
+ goto out_free;
}
switch (err->num_errors) {
case 0:
@@ -2284,6 +2287,11 @@ void parse_events_error__handle(struct parse_events_error *err, int idx,
break;
}
err->num_errors++;
+ return;
+
+out_free:
+ free(str);
+ free(help);
}
#define MAX_WIDTH 1000