perf config: Fix caching and memory leak in perf_home_perfconfig()

Acaict, perf_home_perfconfig() is supposed to cache the result of
home_perfconfig, which returns the default location of perfconfig for
the user, given the HOME environment variable.

However, the current implementation calls home_perfconfig every time
perf_home_perfconfig() is called (so no caching is actually performed),
replacing the previous pointer, thus also causing a memory leak.

This patch adds a check of whether either config or failed is set and,
in that case, directly returns config without calling home_perfconfig at
each invocation.

Fixes: f5f03e19ce14fc31 ("perf config: Add perf_home_perfconfig function")
Signed-off-by: Riccardo Mancini <rickyman7@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210820130817.740536-1-rickyman7@gmail.com
[ Removed needless double check for the 'failed' variable ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/config.c b/tools/perf/util/config.c
index 63d472b336de..4fb5e90d7a57 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/config.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/config.c
@@ -581,7 +581,10 @@ const char *perf_home_perfconfig(void)
 	static const char *config;
 	static bool failed;
 
-	config = failed ? NULL : home_perfconfig();
+	if (failed || config)
+		return config;
+
+	config = home_perfconfig();
 	if (!config)
 		failed = true;