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.
Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <[email protected]> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]> Cc: Brendan Gregg <[email protected]> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: He Kuang <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Kaixu Xia <[email protected]> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Zefan Li <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected] --- 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

