[PATCH] perf pmu: Fix a potential memory leak in perf_pmu__lookup()

From: Christophe JAILLET
Date: Sat Aug 26 2023 - 17:39:08 EST


The commit in Fixes has reordered some code, but missed an error handling
path.

'goto err' now, in order to avoid a memory leak in case of error.

Fixes: f63a536f03a2 ("perf pmu: Merge JSON events with sysfs at load time")
Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/util/pmu.c | 7 +++----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/pmu.c b/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
index bb2ca29cd7bd..8dfce84ad9fe 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
@@ -1018,10 +1018,9 @@ struct perf_pmu *perf_pmu__lookup(struct list_head *pmus, int dirfd, const char
* type value and format definitions. Load both right
* now.
*/
- if (pmu_format(pmu, dirfd, name)) {
- free(pmu);
- return NULL;
- }
+ if (pmu_format(pmu, dirfd, name))
+ goto err;
+
pmu->is_core = is_pmu_core(name);
pmu->cpus = pmu_cpumask(dirfd, name, pmu->is_core);

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2.34.1