Based on the following report from Smatch, fix the potential dereferencing freed memory check.
tools/perf/util/annotate.c:1125 disasm_line__parse() error: dereferencing freed memory 'namep' tools/perf/util/annotate.c 1100 static int disasm_line__parse(char *line, const char **namep, char **rawp) 1101 { 1102 char tmp, *name = ltrim(line); [...] 1114 *namep = strdup(name); 1115 1116 if (*namep == NULL) 1117 goto out_free_name; [...] 1124 out_free_name: 1125 free((void *)namep); ^^^^^ 1126 *namep = NULL; ^^^^^^ 1127 return -1; 1128 } If strdup() fails to allocate memory space for *namep, we don't need to free memory with pointer 'namep', which is resident in data structure disasm_line::ins::name; and *namep is NULL pointer for this failure, so it's pointless to assign NULL to *namep again. Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo....@linaro.org> --- tools/perf/util/annotate.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/annotate.c b/tools/perf/util/annotate.c index c8ce13419d9b..b8dfcfe08bb1 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/annotate.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/annotate.c @@ -1113,16 +1113,14 @@ static int disasm_line__parse(char *line, const char **namep, char **rawp) *namep = strdup(name); if (*namep == NULL) - goto out_free_name; + goto out; (*rawp)[0] = tmp; *rawp = ltrim(*rawp); return 0; -out_free_name: - free((void *)namep); - *namep = NULL; +out: return -1; } -- 2.17.1