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Re: [PATCH] tools lib traceevent: Do not reassign parg after collapse_tree()

From Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] tools lib traceevent: Do not reassign parg after collapse_tree()
Date 2016-05-12 16:30 +0200
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Em Thu, May 12, 2016 at 09:57:13PM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
> Hi Steve,
> 
> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 4:09 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> >
> > At the end of process_filter(), collapse_tree() was changed to update the
> > parg parameter, but the reassignment after the call wasn't removed.
> > What happens is that the "current_op" gets modified and freed and parg
> > is assigned to the new allocated argument. But after the call to
> > collapse_tree(), parg is assigned again to the just freed "current_op",
> > and this causes the tool to crash.
> >
> > current_op must also be assigned to NULL in case of error, otherwise it
> > will cause it to be free()ed twice.
> >
> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.14+
> > Fixes: 42d6194d133c ("tools lib traceevent: Refactor process_filter()")
> > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
 
> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

Thanks, applied to perf/urgent.

- Arnaldo

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[PATCH] tools lib traceevent: Do not reassign parg after  collapse_tree() Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2016-05-11 21:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] tools lib traceevent: Do not reassign parg after collapse_tree() Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> - 2016-05-12 15:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] tools lib traceevent: Do not reassign parg after  collapse_tree() Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-05-12 16:30 +0200
  [tip:perf/urgent] tools lib traceevent: Do not reassign parg after  collapse_tree() tip-bot for Steven Rostedt <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-05-13 11:20 +0200

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