6.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Junhao He <hejunhao3@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit dd9a426eade634bf794c7e0f1b0c6659f556942f ] In the previous loop, all the members in the aliases[j-1] have been freed and set to NULL. But in this loop, the function pmu_alias_is_duplicate() compares the aliases[j] with the aliases[j-1] that has already been disposed, so the function will always return false and duplicate aliases will never be discarded. If we find duplicate aliases, it skips the zfree aliases[j], which is accompanied by a memory leak. We can use the next aliases[j+1] to theck for duplicate aliases to fixes the aliases NULL pointer dereference, then goto zfree code snippet to release it. After patch testing: $ perf list --unit=hisi_sicl,cpa pmu uncore cpa: cpa_p0_rd_dat_32b [Number of read ops transmitted by the P0 port which size is 32 bytes. Unit: hisi_sicl,cpa] cpa_p0_rd_dat_64b [Number of read ops transmitted by the P0 port which size is 64 bytes. Unit: hisi_sicl,cpa] Fixes: c3245d2093c1 ("perf pmu: Abstract alias/event struct") Signed-off-by: Junhao He <hejunhao3@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: ravi.bangoria@xxxxxxx Cc: james.clark@xxxxxxx Cc: prime.zeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: cuigaosheng1@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: jonathan.cameron@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: linuxarm@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: yangyicong@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: robh@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: renyu.zj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: kjain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: john.g.garry@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240614094318.11607-1-hejunhao3@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/perf/util/pmus.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/pmus.c b/tools/perf/util/pmus.c index cec869cbe163a..54a237b2b8538 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/pmus.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/pmus.c @@ -470,8 +470,8 @@ void perf_pmus__print_pmu_events(const struct print_callbacks *print_cb, void *p qsort(aliases, len, sizeof(struct sevent), cmp_sevent); for (int j = 0; j < len; j++) { /* Skip duplicates */ - if (j > 0 && pmu_alias_is_duplicate(&aliases[j], &aliases[j - 1])) - continue; + if (j < len - 1 && pmu_alias_is_duplicate(&aliases[j], &aliases[j + 1])) + goto free; print_cb->print_event(print_state, aliases[j].pmu_name, @@ -484,6 +484,7 @@ void perf_pmus__print_pmu_events(const struct print_callbacks *print_cb, void *p aliases[j].desc, aliases[j].long_desc, aliases[j].encoding_desc); +free: zfree(&aliases[j].name); zfree(&aliases[j].alias); zfree(&aliases[j].scale_unit); -- 2.43.0