[PATCH] perf tools: fix bug in usage of the basename() function

Stephane Eranian
2013-12-05T01:55:58Z

The basename() implementation varies a lot between systems.
The Linux man page says: "basename may modify the content of the path,
so it may be desirable to pass a copy when calling the function".
On some other systems, the returned address may come from an internal
buffer which can be reused in subsequent calls, thus the results should
also be copied.

The dso__set_basename() function was not doing this causing problems
on some systems with wrong library names being shown by perf report,
such as on Android systems.

This patch fixes the problem.
Thanks to Ben Cheng for tracking down the problem.

Patch relative to tip.git at commit 631d5ea.

Reported-by: Ben Cheng <bccheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
---
tools/perf/util/dso.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/dso.c b/tools/perf/util/dso.c
index af4c687c..d186ace 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/dso.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/dso.c
@@ -404,7 +404,34 @@ void dso__set_short_name(struct dso *dso, const char *name)

static void dso__set_basename(struct dso *dso)
{
- dso__set_short_name(dso, basename(dso->long_name));
+ char *lname, *base;
+
+ /*
+ * basename may modify path buffer, so we must pass
+ * a copy.
+ */
+ lname = strdup(dso->long_name);
+ if (!lname)
+ return;
+
+ /*
+ * basename may return pointer to internal
+ * storage which is reused in subsequent calls
+ * so copy the result
+ */
+ base = strdup(basename(lname));
+
+ free(lname);
+
+ if (!base)
+ return;
+
+ if (dso->sname_alloc)
+ free((char *)dso->short_name);
+ else
+ dso->sname_alloc = 1;
+
+ dso__set_short_name(dso, base);
}

int dso__name_len(const struct dso *dso)
--
1.7.9.5