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| author | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2024-05-07 05:04:06 +0200 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2024-05-07 17:44:02 +0200 |
| commit | 54ef362e4daa4a4ecfa2abdc251b21564d27784e (patch) | |
| tree | 8021f244382d0bc324e9a7e2caf66b49a1e52d27 /tools | |
| parent | perf annotate: Use zfree() to avoid possibly accessing dangling pointers (diff) | |
| download | linux-54ef362e4daa4a4ecfa2abdc251b21564d27784e.tar.xz linux-54ef362e4daa4a4ecfa2abdc251b21564d27784e.zip | |
perf callchain: Use zfree() to avoid possibly accessing dangling pointers
When freeing a->b it is good practice to set a->b to NULL using
zfree(&a->b) so that when we have a bug where a reference to a freed 'a'
pointer is kept somewhere, we can more quickly cause a segfault if some
code tries to use a->b.
Convert one such case in the callchain code.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZjmcGobQ8E52EyjJ@x1
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/util/callchain.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/callchain.c b/tools/perf/util/callchain.c index 68feed871809..1730b852a947 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/callchain.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/callchain.c @@ -606,7 +606,7 @@ fill_node(struct callchain_node *node, struct callchain_cursor *cursor) call->brtype_stat = zalloc(sizeof(*call->brtype_stat)); if (!call->brtype_stat) { perror("not enough memory for the code path branch statistics"); - free(call->brtype_stat); + zfree(&call->brtype_stat); return -ENOMEM; } } |