From: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>,
Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>,
Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.ibm.com>,
linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] perf disasm: Fix potential use-after-free on fileloc
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2026 16:22:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260307002222.2463509-1-irogers@google.com> (raw)
The fileloc is a copy of a pointer to a string but in places like
symbol_disassemble__llvm this string appears to be freed setting up
potential use-after-frees:
llvm.c:
```
dl = disasm_line__new(args);
if (dl == NULL)
goto err;
annotation_line__add(&dl->al, ¬es->src->source);
free(args->fileloc);
```
disasm.c:
```
static void annotation_line__init(struct annotation_line *al,
struct annotate_args *args,
int nr)
{
al->offset = args->offset;
al->line = strdup(args->line);
al->line_nr = args->line_nr;
al->fileloc = args->fileloc;
al->data_nr = nr;
}
struct disasm_line *disasm_line__new(struct annotate_args *args)
{
struct disasm_line *dl = NULL;
struct annotation *notes = symbol__annotation(args->ms->sym);
int nr = notes->src->nr_events;
dl = zalloc(disasm_line_size(nr));
if (!dl)
return NULL;
annotation_line__init(&dl->al, args, nr);
```
Fix this by making the fileloc a copy of the underlying string in its
init/exit.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
---
tools/perf/util/disasm.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/disasm.c b/tools/perf/util/disasm.c
index ddcc488f2e5f..3fcb3634a7e0 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/disasm.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/disasm.c
@@ -908,13 +908,14 @@ static void annotation_line__init(struct annotation_line *al,
al->offset = args->offset;
al->line = strdup(args->line);
al->line_nr = args->line_nr;
- al->fileloc = args->fileloc;
+ al->fileloc = args->fileloc ? strdup(args->fileloc) : NULL;
al->data_nr = nr;
}
static void annotation_line__exit(struct annotation_line *al)
{
zfree_srcline(&al->path);
+ zfree(&al->fileloc);
zfree(&al->line);
zfree(&al->cycles);
zfree(&al->br_cntr);
@@ -950,7 +951,7 @@ struct disasm_line *disasm_line__new(struct annotate_args *args)
annotation_line__init(&dl->al, args, nr);
if (dl->al.line == NULL)
- goto out_delete;
+ goto out_free_line;
if (args->offset != -1) {
if (arch__is_powerpc(args->arch)) {
@@ -965,8 +966,7 @@ struct disasm_line *disasm_line__new(struct annotate_args *args)
return dl;
out_free_line:
- zfree(&dl->al.line);
-out_delete:
+ annotation_line__exit(&dl->al);
free(dl);
return NULL;
}
--
2.53.0.473.g4a7958ca14-goog
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