Some error paths in read_proc_kallsyms() may lead to a memory leak. Improved the error handling of this internal function to avoid it. Signed-off-by: Tzvetomir Stoyanov (VMware) <tz.stoyanov@xxxxxxxxx> --- lib/trace-cmd/trace-input.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/trace-cmd/trace-input.c b/lib/trace-cmd/trace-input.c index ec717296..14052a11 100644 --- a/lib/trace-cmd/trace-input.c +++ b/lib/trace-cmd/trace-input.c @@ -846,9 +846,10 @@ static int read_event_files(struct tracecmd_input *handle, const char *regex) static int read_proc_kallsyms(struct tracecmd_input *handle) { - struct tep_handle *pevent = handle->pevent; + struct tep_handle *tep = handle->pevent; unsigned int size; - char *buf; + char *buf = NULL; + int ret; if (CHECK_READ_STATE(handle, TRACECMD_FILE_KALLSYMS)) return 0; @@ -857,28 +858,31 @@ static int read_proc_kallsyms(struct tracecmd_input *handle) add_section(handle, TRACECMD_OPTION_KALLSYMS, 0, 0, lseek64(handle->fd, 0, SEEK_CUR)); - - if (read4(handle, &size) < 0) - return -1; - if (!size) - return 0; /* OK? */ + ret = read4(handle, &size); + if (ret < 0) + goto out; + if (!size) { + handle->file_state = TRACECMD_FILE_KALLSYMS; + goto out; /* OK? */ + } buf = malloc(size+1); - if (!buf) - return -1; - if (do_read_check(handle, buf, size)){ - free(buf); - return -1; + if (!buf) { + ret = -1; + goto out; } - buf[size] = 0; - - tep_parse_kallsyms(pevent, buf); + ret = do_read_check(handle, buf, size); + if (ret < 0) + goto out; - free(buf); + buf[size] = 0; + tep_parse_kallsyms(tep, buf); handle->file_state = TRACECMD_FILE_KALLSYMS; - - return 0; + ret = 0; +out: + free(buf); + return ret; } static int read_ftrace_printk(struct tracecmd_input *handle) -- 2.31.1