[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 07/11] libsubcmd: Fix memory leak in uniq()

Sasha Levin
2024-01-28T16:16:50Z

From: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>

[ Upstream commit ad30469a841b50dbb541df4d6971d891f703c297 ]

uniq() will write one command name over another causing the overwritten
string to be leaked. Fix by doing a pass that removes duplicates and a
second that removes the holes.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Chenyuan Mi <cymi20@fudan.edu.cn>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231208000515.1693746-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
tools/lib/subcmd/help.c | 18 ++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/lib/subcmd/help.c b/tools/lib/subcmd/help.c
index 2859f107abc8..4260c8b4257b 100644
--- a/tools/lib/subcmd/help.c
+++ b/tools/lib/subcmd/help.c
@@ -50,11 +50,21 @@ void uniq(struct cmdnames *cmds)
if (!cmds->cnt)
return;

- for (i = j = 1; i < cmds->cnt; i++)
- if (strcmp(cmds->names[i]->name, cmds->names[i-1]->name))
- cmds->names[j++] = cmds->names[i];
-
+ for (i = 1; i < cmds->cnt; i++) {
+ if (!strcmp(cmds->names[i]->name, cmds->names[i-1]->name))
+ zfree(&cmds->names[i - 1]);
+ }
+ for (i = 0, j = 0; i < cmds->cnt; i++) {
+ if (cmds->names[i]) {
+ if (i == j)
+ j++;
+ else
+ cmds->names[j++] = cmds->names[i];
+ }
+ }
cmds->cnt = j;
+ while (j < i)
+ cmds->names[j++] = NULL;
}

void exclude_cmds(struct cmdnames *cmds, struct cmdnames *excludes)
--
2.43.0