Some error paths in read_and_parse_cmdlines() 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 | 20 +++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/trace-cmd/trace-input.c b/lib/trace-cmd/trace-input.c index 5eaf030e..1cc72092 100644 --- a/lib/trace-cmd/trace-input.c +++ b/lib/trace-cmd/trace-input.c @@ -3122,7 +3122,8 @@ static int read_and_parse_cmdlines(struct tracecmd_input *handle) { struct tep_handle *pevent = handle->pevent; unsigned long long size; - char *cmdlines; + char *cmdlines = NULL; + int ret; if (CHECK_READ_STATE(handle, TRACECMD_FILE_CMD_LINES)) return 0; @@ -3131,15 +3132,20 @@ static int read_and_parse_cmdlines(struct tracecmd_input *handle) add_section(handle, TRACECMD_OPTION_CMDLINES, 0, 0, lseek64(handle->fd, 0, SEEK_CUR)); - if (read_data_and_size(handle, &cmdlines, &size) < 0) - return -1; + ret = read_data_and_size(handle, &cmdlines, &size); + if (ret < 0) + goto out; + if (!size) { + handle->file_state = TRACECMD_FILE_CMD_LINES; + goto out; + } cmdlines[size] = 0; tep_parse_saved_cmdlines(pevent, cmdlines); - free(cmdlines); - handle->file_state = TRACECMD_FILE_CMD_LINES; - - return 0; + ret = 0; +out: + free(cmdlines); + return ret; } static void extract_trace_clock(struct tracecmd_input *handle, char *line) -- 2.31.1