[PATCH] perf trace: Fix potential USE_AFTER_FREE problem

From: Bo YU
Date: Thu Feb 14 2019 - 00:26:58 EST


From: Bo Yu <tsu.yubo@xxxxxxxxx>

There is a freed pointer "evsel", so fix it.

Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1442595("Memory-illegalaccesses
(USE_AFTER_FREE)")
Fixes: 6ab3bc240ade4("perf trace: Support multiple "vfs_getname" probes")

Signed-off-by: Bo Yu <tsu.yubo@xxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/builtin-trace.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
index b36061cd1ab8..4036b20a1067 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
@@ -2515,7 +2515,7 @@ static size_t trace__fprintf_thread_summary(struct trace *trace, FILE *fp);
static bool perf_evlist__add_vfs_getname(struct perf_evlist *evlist)
{
bool found = false;
- struct perf_evsel *evsel, *tmp;
+ struct perf_evsel *evsel = NULL, *tmp;
struct parse_events_error err = { .idx = 0, };
int ret = parse_events(evlist, "probe:vfs_getname*", &err);

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2.11.0