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[PATCH] tools: perf: fix leaking rec_argv in error cases

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Let's free the allocated rec_argv in case we return early, in
order to avoid leaking memory.

This adds free() at a few very similar places across the tree
where it was missing.

Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de>
---
 tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c       | 1 +
 tools/perf/builtin-mem.c       | 1 +
 tools/perf/builtin-timechart.c | 4 +++-
 tools/perf/builtin-trace.c     | 1 +
 4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c b/tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c
index 475999e48f66..bb1ee22bd221 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c
@@ -2732,6 +2732,7 @@ static int perf_c2c__record(int argc, const char **argv)
 		if (!perf_mem_events[j].supported) {
 			pr_err("failed: event '%s' not supported\n",
 			       perf_mem_events[j].name);
+			free(rec_argv);
 			return -1;
 		}
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-mem.c b/tools/perf/builtin-mem.c
index 0f15634ef82c..6940490bc3f9 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-mem.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-mem.c
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ static int __cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv, struct perf_mem *mem)
 		if (!perf_mem_events[j].supported) {
 			pr_err("failed: event '%s' not supported\n",
 			       perf_mem_events__name(j));
+			free(rec_argv);
 			return -1;
 		}
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-timechart.c b/tools/perf/builtin-timechart.c
index 4e2e61695986..01de01ca14f2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-timechart.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-timechart.c
@@ -1732,8 +1732,10 @@ static int timechart__io_record(int argc, const char **argv)
 	if (rec_argv == NULL)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	if (asprintf(&filter, "common_pid != %d", getpid()) < 0)
+	if (asprintf(&filter, "common_pid != %d", getpid()) < 0) {
+		free(rec_argv);
 		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
 
 	p = rec_argv;
 	for (i = 0; i < common_args_nr; i++)
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
index 771ddab94bb0..dd8eec4c755c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
@@ -2078,6 +2078,7 @@ static int trace__record(struct trace *trace, int argc, const char **argv)
 			rec_argv[j++] = "syscalls:sys_enter,syscalls:sys_exit";
 		else {
 			pr_err("Neither raw_syscalls nor syscalls events exist.\n");
+			free(rec_argv);
 			return -1;
 		}
 	}
-- 
2.11.0

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[PATCH] tools: perf: fix leaking rec_argv in error cases Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de> - 2017-09-13 21:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] tools: perf: fix leaking rec_argv in error cases Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2017-09-15 21:10 +0200
  [tip:perf/core] perf tools: Fix leaking rec_argv in error cases tip-bot for Martin Kepplinger <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2017-09-22 18:50 +0200

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