Leak sanitizer was reporting a stack trace with perf: ``` $ perf stat -e 'kvm:kvm_inj_exception' true Performance counter stats for 'true': 0 kvm:kvm_inj_exception 0.001701473 seconds time elapsed 0.000000000 seconds user 0.001865000 seconds sys ================================================================= ==1705137==ERROR: LeakSanitizer: detected memory leaks Direct leak of 2 byte(s) in 1 object(s) allocated from: #0 0x7f413ee80778 in __interceptor_strdup ../../../../src/libsanitizer/asan/asan_interceptors.cpp:454 #1 0x7f413ecb7b66 in __read_token libtraceevent/src/event-parse.c:1274 #2 0x7f413ecb85bb in read_token libtraceevent/src/event-parse.c:1432 #3 0x7f413ecbeaaa in process_entry libtraceevent/src/event-parse.c:2554 #4 0x7f413ecc54ae in process_arg_token libtraceevent/src/event-parse.c:3698 #5 0x7f413ecbb52e in process_arg libtraceevent/src/event-parse.c:2017 #6 0x7f413ecbd05a in process_op libtraceevent/src/event-parse.c:2357 #7 0x7f413ecc5a56 in process_arg_token libtraceevent/src/event-parse.c:3752 #8 0x7f413ecbb52e in process_arg libtraceevent/src/event-parse.c:2017 #9 0x7f413ecc5dd6 in event_read_print_args libtraceevent/src/event-parse.c:3791 #10 0x7f413ecc6511 in event_read_print libtraceevent/src/event-parse.c:3879 #11 0x7f413ecda16c in parse_format libtraceevent/src/event-parse.c:7808 #12 0x7f413ecda667 in __parse_event libtraceevent/src/event-parse.c:7866 #13 0x7f413ecda71b in tep_parse_format libtraceevent/src/event-parse.c:7908 #14 0x561672439029 in tp_format util/trace-event.c:94 #15 0x561672439141 in trace_event__tp_format util/trace-event.c:109 #16 0x56167230a429 in evsel__newtp_idx util/evsel.c:472 #17 0x561672329f99 in add_tracepoint util/parse-events.c:552 #18 0x56167232a5b4 in add_tracepoint_event util/parse-events.c:627 #19 0x56167232ebf2 in parse_events_add_tracepoint util/parse-events.c:1313 #20 0x561672411e0e in parse_events_parse util/parse-events.y:500 #21 0x561672332409 in parse_events__scanner util/parse-events.c:1878 #22 0x561672333cd4 in __parse_events util/parse-events.c:2146 #23 0x561672334e74 in parse_events_option util/parse-events.c:2349 #24 0x56167269ec23 in get_value tools/lib/subcmd/parse-options.c:251 #25 0x56167269fe65 in parse_short_opt tools/lib/subcmd/parse-options.c:351 #26 0x5616726a0e4d in parse_options_step tools/lib/subcmd/parse-options.c:539 #27 0x5616726a1d86 in parse_options_subcommand tools/lib/subcmd/parse-options.c:654 #28 0x5616720e6ad2 in cmd_stat tools/perf/builtin-stat.c:2531 #29 0x5616722b0f5d in run_builtin tools/perf/perf.c:350 $ cat /sys/kernel/tracing/events/kvm/kvm_inj_exception/format name: kvm_inj_exception ID: 1956 format: field:unsigned short common_type; offset:0; size:2; signed:0; field:unsigned char common_flags; offset:2; size:1; signed:0; field:unsigned char common_preempt_count; offset:3; size:1; signed:0; field:int common_pid; offset:4; size:4; signed:1; field:u8 exception; offset:8; size:1; signed:0; field:u8 has_error; offset:9; size:1; signed:0; field:u32 error_code; offset:12; size:4; signed:0; field:bool reinjected; offset:16; size:1; signed:0; print fmt: "%s%s%s%s%s", __print_symbolic(REC->exception, { 0, "#" "DE" }, { 1, "#" "DB" }, { 3, "#" "BP" }, { 4, "#" "OF" }, { 5, "#" "BR" }, { 6, "#" "UD" }, { 7, "#" "NM" }, { 8, "#" "DF" }, { 10, "#" "TS" }, { 11, "#" "NP" }, { 12, "#" "SS" }, { 13, "#" "GP" }, { 14, "#" "PF" }, { 16, "#" "MF" }, { 17, "#" "AC" }, { 18, "#" "MC" }), !REC->has_error ? "" : " (", !REC->has_error ? "" : __print_symbolic(REC->error_code, { }), !REC->has_error ? "" : ")", REC->reinjected ? " [reinjected]" : "" ``` The issue appears to be that when process_cond returns an error, callers clear the variable holding the string but the string was never freed. This change adds the free when process_cond returns TEP_EVENT_ERROR. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx> --- src/event-parse.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/event-parse.c b/src/event-parse.c index d607556..b6ae67e 100644 --- a/src/event-parse.c +++ b/src/event-parse.c @@ -2373,6 +2373,8 @@ process_op(struct tep_event *event, struct tep_print_arg *arg, char **tok) /* it will set arg->op.right */ type = process_cond(event, arg, tok); + if (type == TEP_EVENT_ERROR) + free(token); } else if (strcmp(token, ">>") == 0 || strcmp(token, "<<") == 0 || -- 2.44.0.769.g3c40516874-goog