This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
perf util: Fix memory leak of prefix_if_not_in
to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
perf-util-fix-memory-leak-of-prefix_if_not_in.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 3cca6981d7451349052e5afcd3142ed70aed784d
Author: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu May 21 21:32:17 2020 +0800
perf util: Fix memory leak of prefix_if_not_in
[ Upstream commit 07e9a6f538cbeecaf5c55b6f2991416f873cdcbd ]
Need to free "str" before return when asprintf() failed to avoid memory
leak.
Signed-off-by: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hongbo Yao <yaohongbo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Li Bin <huawei.libin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200521133218.30150-4-liwei391@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/sort.c b/tools/perf/util/sort.c
index 43d1d410854a3..4027906fd3e38 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/sort.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/sort.c
@@ -2788,7 +2788,7 @@ static char *prefix_if_not_in(const char *pre, char *str)
return str;
if (asprintf(&n, "%s,%s", pre, str) < 0)
- return NULL;
+ n = NULL;
free(str);
return n;
