Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] perf metric: Fix some memory leaks

[Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>]

On Sat, Sep 05, 2020 at 11:19:11AM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> I found some memory leaks while reading the metric code.  Some are
> real and others only occur in the error path.  When it failed during
> metric or event parsing, it should release all resources properly.
> 
> Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
> Fixes: b18f3e365019d ("perf stat: Support JSON metrics in perf stat")
> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>

thanks,
jirka

> ---
>  tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c | 7 +++++--
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c b/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c
> index 8831b964288f..af664d6218d6 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c
> @@ -530,6 +530,9 @@ void metricgroup__print(bool metrics, bool metricgroups, char *filter,
>  						continue;
>  					strlist__add(me->metrics, s);
>  				}
> +
> +				if (!raw)
> +					free(s);
>  			}
>  			free(omg);
>  		}
> @@ -1040,7 +1043,7 @@ static int parse_groups(struct evlist *perf_evlist, const char *str,
>  	ret = metricgroup__add_metric_list(str, metric_no_group,
>  					   &extra_events, &metric_list, map);
>  	if (ret)
> -		return ret;
> +		goto out;
>  	pr_debug("adding %s\n", extra_events.buf);
>  	bzero(&parse_error, sizeof(parse_error));
>  	ret = __parse_events(perf_evlist, extra_events.buf, &parse_error, fake_pmu);
> @@ -1048,11 +1051,11 @@ static int parse_groups(struct evlist *perf_evlist, const char *str,
>  		parse_events_print_error(&parse_error, extra_events.buf);
>  		goto out;
>  	}
> -	strbuf_release(&extra_events);
>  	ret = metricgroup__setup_events(&metric_list, metric_no_merge,
>  					perf_evlist, metric_events);
>  out:
>  	metricgroup__free_metrics(&metric_list);
> +	strbuf_release(&extra_events);
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 2.28.0.526.ge36021eeef-goog
>