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Re: [PATCH 12/31] perf probe: Reset args and nargs for probe_trace_event when failure

From Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 12/31] perf probe: Reset args and nargs for probe_trace_event when failure
Date 2015-10-29 23:40 +0100
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Em Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 12:41:23PM +0000, Wang Nan escreveu:
> When failure occures in add_probe_trace_event(), args in
> probe_trace_event is incomplete. Since information in it may be used
> in futher, this patch frees the allocated memory and set it to NULL
> to avoid dangling pointer.

Masami, can I have your Acked-by for this one?

Thanks,

- Arnaldo
 
> Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
> Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
> Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
> Cc: Kaixu Xia <xiakaixu@huawei.com>
> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
> Cc: pi3orama@163.com
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/ebpf-6yw9eg0ej3l4jnqhinngkw86@git.kernel.org
> ---
>  tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
> index bd8f03d..b1581d7 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
> @@ -1235,6 +1235,10 @@ static int add_probe_trace_event(Dwarf_Die *sc_die, struct probe_finder *pf)
>  
>  end:
>  	free(args);
> +	if (ret) {
> +		tev->nargs = 0;
> +		zfree(&tev->args);
> +	}
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 1.8.3.4
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