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); -- 2.34.1