From: Pengpeng Hou <pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Pengpeng Hou <pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn>
Subject: [PATCH v5 1/3] tracing: Use __free() for expr_str() buffer
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:59:43 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260611055945.22348-2-pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn> (raw)
expr_str() allocates a temporary expression buffer and manually frees it
on some error paths.
Convert the buffer to __free(kfree) and return it with return_ptr() on
success. This keeps ownership handling separate from the later ERR_PTR()
conversion and string-bound change.
Signed-off-by: Pengpeng Hou <pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn>
---
kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 14 ++++++--------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
index 82ce492ab268..f778f060e922 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
@@ -1759,7 +1759,7 @@ static void expr_field_str(struct hist_field *field, char *expr)
static char *expr_str(struct hist_field *field, unsigned int level)
{
- char *expr;
+ char *expr __free(kfree) = NULL;
if (level > 1)
return NULL;
@@ -1770,7 +1770,7 @@ static char *expr_str(struct hist_field *field, unsigned int level)
if (!field->operands[0]) {
expr_field_str(field, expr);
- return expr;
+ return_ptr(expr);
}
if (field->operator == FIELD_OP_UNARY_MINUS) {
@@ -1778,16 +1778,15 @@ static char *expr_str(struct hist_field *field, unsigned int level)
strcat(expr, "-(");
subexpr = expr_str(field->operands[0], ++level);
- if (!subexpr) {
- kfree(expr);
+ if (!subexpr)
return NULL;
- }
+
strcat(expr, subexpr);
strcat(expr, ")");
kfree(subexpr);
- return expr;
+ return_ptr(expr);
}
expr_field_str(field->operands[0], expr);
@@ -1806,13 +1805,12 @@ static char *expr_str(struct hist_field *field, unsigned int level)
strcat(expr, "*");
break;
default:
- kfree(expr);
return NULL;
}
expr_field_str(field->operands[1], expr);
- return expr;
+ return_ptr(expr);
}
/*
--
2.50.1 (Apple Git-155)
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