This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
perf pmu: Fix a potential memory leak in perf_pmu__lookup()
to the 6.7-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-fix-a-potential-memory-leak-in-perf_pmu__lo.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.7 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit e814c8c5afc55f6b866aea07fa946eaedb14cb20
Author: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat Aug 26 23:32:45 2023 +0200
perf pmu: Fix a potential memory leak in perf_pmu__lookup()
[ Upstream commit ef5de1613d7d92bdc975e6beb34bb0fa94f34078 ]
The commit in Fixes has reordered some code, but missed an error handling
path.
'goto err' now, in order to avoid a memory leak in case of error.
Fixes: f63a536f03a2 ("perf pmu: Merge JSON events with sysfs at load time")
Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: kernel-janitors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9538b2b634894c33168dfe9d848d4df31fd4d801.1693085544.git.christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/pmu.c b/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
index 33e783fc908fe..aaa013af52524 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
@@ -1019,10 +1019,9 @@ struct perf_pmu *perf_pmu__lookup(struct list_head *pmus, int dirfd, const char
* type value and format definitions. Load both right
* now.
*/
- if (pmu_format(pmu, dirfd, name)) {
- free(pmu);
- return NULL;
- }
+ if (pmu_format(pmu, dirfd, name))
+ goto err;
+
pmu->is_core = is_pmu_core(name);
pmu->cpus = pmu_cpumask(dirfd, name, pmu->is_core);
