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| author |   Riccardo Mancini <rickyman7@gmail.com> | 2021-07-15 18:07:14 +0200 |
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| committer |   Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2021-07-15 17:27:52 -0300 |
| commit | a37338aad8c4d8676173ead14e881d2ec308155c (patch) | |
| tree | 0702b3d65f0d7c4d9914c268ca087ae21aa50b49 /tools/perf/util/sort.c | |
| parent | perf env: Fix memory leak of cpu_pmu_caps (diff) | |
| download | wireguard-linux-a37338aad8c4d8676173ead14e881d2ec308155c.tar.xz wireguard-linux-a37338aad8c4d8676173ead14e881d2ec308155c.zip | |
perf report: Free generated help strings for sort option
ASan reports the memory leak of the strings allocated by sort_help() when
running perf report.
This patch changes the returned pointer to char* (instead of const
char*), saves it in a temporary variable, and finally deallocates it at
function exit.
Signed-off-by: Riccardo Mancini <rickyman7@gmail.com>
Fixes: 702fb9b415e7c99b ("perf report: Show all sort keys in help output")
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/a38b13f02812a8a6759200b9063c6191337f44d4.1626343282.git.rickyman7@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util/sort.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/util/sort.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/sort.c b/tools/perf/util/sort.c index 88ce47f2547e..568a88c001c6 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/sort.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/sort.c @@ -3370,7 +3370,7 @@ static void add_hpp_sort_string(struct strbuf *sb, struct hpp_dimension *s, int add_key(sb, s[i].name, llen); } -const char *sort_help(const char *prefix) +char *sort_help(const char *prefix) { struct strbuf sb; char *s; |