Re: [PATCH V3 06/15] perf tools: fix parse_events_terms() freeing local variable on error path

[David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>]

On 6/28/13 2:43 AM, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> The list_head is on the stack, so just free the rest of the list.
>
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
> ---
>   tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 7 ++++++-
>   tools/perf/util/parse-events.h | 1 +
>   tools/perf/util/pmu.c          | 2 +-
>   3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
> index 995fc25..d9cb055 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
> @@ -1231,12 +1231,17 @@ int parse_events_term__clone(struct parse_events_term **new,
>   			term->val.str, term->val.num);
>   }
>
> -void parse_events__free_terms(struct list_head *terms)
> +void parse_events__free_terms_only(struct list_head *terms)
>   {
>   	struct parse_events_term *term, *h;
>
>   	list_for_each_entry_safe(term, h, terms, list)
>   		free(term);
> +}
> +
> +void parse_events__free_terms(struct list_head *terms)
> +{
> +	parse_events__free_terms_only(terms);
>
>   	free(terms);
>   }

I still don't understand the reasoning for an _only function. There is 
only 1 place that mallocs the list_head and that 1 user should free its 
own memory. All of the other users pass a stack variable.

David