From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Adrian Hunter , David Ahern , Frederic Weisbecker , Jiri Olsa , Namhyung Kim , Tom Zanussi , Wang Nan , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Subject: [PATCH 4.9 020/130] perf scripting: Avoid leaking the scripting_context variable Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 08:54:20 +0100 Message-Id: <20170124075535.768947785@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20170124075534.905042535@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20170124075534.905042535@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo commit cf346d5bd4b9d61656df2f72565c9b354ef3ca0d upstream. Both register_perl_scripting() and register_python_scripting() allocate this variable, fix it by checking if it already was. Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Tom Zanussi Cc: Wang Nan Fixes: 7e4b21b84c43 ("perf/scripts: Add Python scripting engine") Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- tools/perf/util/trace-event-scripting.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/tools/perf/util/trace-event-scripting.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/trace-event-scripting.c @@ -95,7 +95,8 @@ static void register_python_scripting(st if (err) die("error registering py script extension"); - scripting_context = malloc(sizeof(struct scripting_context)); + if (scripting_context == NULL) + scripting_context = malloc(sizeof(*scripting_context)); } #ifdef NO_LIBPYTHON @@ -159,7 +160,8 @@ static void register_perl_scripting(stru if (err) die("error registering pl script extension"); - scripting_context = malloc(sizeof(struct scripting_context)); + if (scripting_context == NULL) + scripting_context = malloc(sizeof(*scripting_context)); } #ifdef NO_LIBPERL