This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
perf pmu: zfree() expects a pointer to a pointer to zero it after freeing its contents
to the 5.10-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-pmu-zfree-expects-a-pointer-to-a-pointer-to-zer.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 8ea9bb1dc200154169550ca1815163212debb6ad
Author: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Apr 12 10:23:35 2023 -0300
perf pmu: zfree() expects a pointer to a pointer to zero it after freeing its contents
[ Upstream commit 57f14b5ae1a97537f2abd2828ee7212cada7036e ]
An audit showed just this one problem with zfree(), fix it.
Fixes: 9fbc61f832ebf432 ("perf pmu: Add support for PMU capabilities")
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/pmu.c b/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
index ac45da0302a73..d322305bc1828 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
@@ -1670,7 +1670,7 @@ static int perf_pmu__new_caps(struct list_head *list, char *name, char *value)
return 0;
free_name:
- zfree(caps->name);
+ zfree(&caps->name);
free_caps:
free(caps);
