[PATCH 1/1] perf bpf: Defer freeing string after possible strlen() on it

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Wed Feb 16 2022 - 14:51:27 EST


FYI: I'm carrying this on my tree:

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This was detected by the gcc in Fedora Rawhide's gcc:

50 11.01 fedora:rawhide : FAIL gcc version 12.0.1 20220205 (Red Hat 12.0.1-0) (GCC)
inlined from 'bpf__config_obj' at util/bpf-loader.c:1242:9:
util/bpf-loader.c:1225:34: error: pointer 'map_opt' may be used after 'free' [-Werror=use-after-free]
1225 | *key_scan_pos += strlen(map_opt);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
util/bpf-loader.c:1223:9: note: call to 'free' here
1223 | free(map_name);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors

So do the calculations on the pointer before freeing it.

Fixes: 04f9bf2bac72480c ("perf bpf-loader: Add missing '*' for key_scan_pos")
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Wang ShaoBo <bobo.shaobowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/util/bpf-loader.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/bpf-loader.c b/tools/perf/util/bpf-loader.c
index 7ecfaac7536a1b1b..16ec605a9fe46a64 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/bpf-loader.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/bpf-loader.c
@@ -1220,9 +1220,10 @@ bpf__obj_config_map(struct bpf_object *obj,
pr_debug("ERROR: Invalid map config option '%s'\n", map_opt);
err = -BPF_LOADER_ERRNO__OBJCONF_MAP_OPT;
out:
- free(map_name);
if (!err)
*key_scan_pos += strlen(map_opt);
+
+ free(map_name);
return err;
}

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2.34.1