From: eugene.loh@oracle.com
To: dtrace@lists.linux.dev, dtrace-devel@oss.oracle.com
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] Use asprintf() to allocate strings
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:57:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260116225734.23447-1-eugene.loh@oracle.com> (raw)
From: Eugene Loh <eugene.loh@oracle.com>
Earlier patches have slowly replaced constructs like:
int len;
len = snprintf(NULL, 0, format, args) + 1;
buf = malloc(len);
snprintf(buf, len, format, args);
with the more compact:
asprintf(&buf, format, args);
Replace the remaining instances of the bulkier construct.
Note that dt_conf_init() continues to compute a buffer length and
allocate a buffer, since that buffer will be reused multiple times.
Further, dt_probe_tag() keeps its current form so that memory can be
allocated with alloca() to guard against memory leaks in the event that
ctf_add_typedef() fails.
Signed-off-by: Eugene Loh <eugene.loh@oracle.com>
---
libdtrace/dt_link.c | 17 +++++++----------
libdtrace/dt_prov_dtrace.c | 12 +++---------
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
diff --git a/libdtrace/dt_link.c b/libdtrace/dt_link.c
index c9e0ea5fe..ffa16d9a4 100644
--- a/libdtrace/dt_link.c
+++ b/libdtrace/dt_link.c
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
/*
* Oracle Linux DTrace.
- * Copyright (c) 2008, 2025, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2008, 2026, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
* Licensed under the Universal Permissive License v 1.0 as shown at
* http://oss.oracle.com/licenses/upl.
*/
@@ -416,7 +416,6 @@ dtrace_program_link(dtrace_hdl_t *dtp, dtrace_prog_t *pgp, uint_t dflags,
char drti[PATH_MAX], symvers[PATH_MAX];
int fd, i, cur;
char *cmd;
- size_t len;
int ret = 0, status = 0;
/*
@@ -426,6 +425,7 @@ dtrace_program_link(dtrace_hdl_t *dtp, dtrace_prog_t *pgp, uint_t dflags,
*/
if (pgp == NULL) {
const char *fmt = "%s -o %s -r";
+ size_t len;
len = snprintf(NULL, 0, fmt, dtp->dt_ld_path, file) + 1;
@@ -521,15 +521,12 @@ dtrace_program_link(dtrace_hdl_t *dtp, dtrace_prog_t *pgp, uint_t dflags,
}
snprintf(symvers, sizeof (symvers), "%s/drti/drti-vers", libdir->dir_path);
- len = snprintf(NULL, 0, fmt, dtp->dt_ld_path, emu, file,
- symvers, fd, drti) + 1;
+ asprintf(&cmd, fmt, dtp->dt_ld_path, emu, file, symvers, fd,
+ drti);
+ status = system(cmd);
+ free(cmd);
- cmd = alloca(len);
-
- (void) snprintf(cmd, len, fmt, dtp->dt_ld_path, emu, file,
- symvers, fd, drti);
-
- if ((status = system(cmd)) == -1) {
+ if (status == -1) {
ret = dt_link_error(dtp, NULL, -1,
"failed to run %s: %s", dtp->dt_ld_path,
strerror(errno));
diff --git a/libdtrace/dt_prov_dtrace.c b/libdtrace/dt_prov_dtrace.c
index 1bd405b81..9ef001a33 100644
--- a/libdtrace/dt_prov_dtrace.c
+++ b/libdtrace/dt_prov_dtrace.c
@@ -228,7 +228,6 @@ static int attach(dtrace_hdl_t *dtp, const dt_probe_t *prp, int bpf_fd)
char *spec;
char *fn;
FILE *f;
- size_t len;
int fd, rc = -1;
/* get a uprobe specification for this probe */
@@ -248,16 +247,11 @@ static int attach(dtrace_hdl_t *dtp, const dt_probe_t *prp, int bpf_fd)
return -ENOENT;
/* open format file */
- len = snprintf(NULL, 0, "%s" PROBE_FMT "/format",
- EVENTSFS, PROBE_DATA) + 1;
- fn = dt_alloc(dtp, len);
- if (fn == NULL)
+ if (asprintf(&fn, "%s" PROBE_FMT "/format", EVENTSFS,
+ PROBE_DATA) < 0)
return -ENOENT;
-
- snprintf(fn, len, "%s" PROBE_FMT "/format",
- EVENTSFS, PROBE_DATA);
f = fopen(fn, "r");
- dt_free(dtp, fn);
+ free(fn);
if (f == NULL)
return -ENOENT;
--
2.47.3
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