From: "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" <jirislaby@kernel.org>
To: acme@redhat.com
Cc: "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" <jirislaby@kernel.org>,
Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>,
linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] perf: do not call zfree() on uninitialized pointer
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2026 11:08:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261104100802.539266-1-jirislaby@kernel.org> (raw)
In add_drm_pmu(), the check for type > PERF_PMU_TYPE_DRM_END happens
before "drm" is allocated by zalloc(). The error path nevertheless
called zfree(&drm), i.e. free() on an uninitialized pointer, which
can crash. Remove this bogus zfree() -- nothing has been allocated
yet at this point, so there is nothing to free.
Fixes this compiler warning:
In function ‘__zfree’,
inlined from ‘add_drm_pmu’ at util/drm_pmu.c:110:3,
inlined from ‘read_drm_pmus_cb’ at util/drm_pmu.c:174:10:
../lib/zalloc.c:13:9: warning: ‘drm’ may be used uninitialized [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
13 | free(*ptr);
| ^
Assisted-by: LLM
Fixes: 28917cb17f9d ("perf drm_pmu: Add a tool like PMU to expose DRM information")
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby (SUSE) <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
---
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
---
tools/perf/util/drm_pmu.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/drm_pmu.c b/tools/perf/util/drm_pmu.c
index b8badae7015c..5e4bdd8e7fa8 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/drm_pmu.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/drm_pmu.c
@@ -107,7 +107,6 @@ static struct drm_pmu *add_drm_pmu(struct list_head *pmus, char *line, size_t li
type = PERF_PMU_TYPE_DRM_START;
if (type > PERF_PMU_TYPE_DRM_END) {
- zfree(&drm);
pr_err("Unable to encode DRM PMU type for %s\n", name);
return NULL;
}
--
2.56.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-11-04 10:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-04 10:08 Jiri Slaby (SUSE) [this message]
2026-11-04 10:08 ` [PATCH 2/2] perf: do not call list_for_each_entry_safe() on uninitalized list Jiri Slaby (SUSE)
2026-11-04 10:16 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-04 10:15 ` [PATCH 1/2] perf: do not call zfree() on uninitialized pointer sashiko-bot
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