Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf: do not call zfree() on uninitialized pointer

[sashiko-bot@kernel.org]

> 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>

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