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authorIan Rogers <irogers@google.com>2023-08-29 17:05:45 -0700
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2023-08-30 23:03:02 -0300
commit196e355877a767674ea9c35af1686e642294885a (patch)
tree94cb39865ff01f72769e5d5c8f1873d177041b00 /tools
parentd2045f87154bf67a50ebefe28d2ca0e1e3f8eef1 (diff)
perf pmu: Avoid uninitialized use of alias->str
alias is allocated with malloc allowing uninitialized memory to be accessed. The initialization of str was moved late after it could have been updated by a JSON event, however, this create a potential for an uninitialized use. Fix this by assigning str to NULL early. Testing on ARM (Raspberry Pi) showed a memory leak in the same code so add a zfree. Fixes: f63a536f03a2f64f ("perf pmu: Merge JSON events with sysfs at load time") Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com> Cc: Jing Zhang <renyu.zj@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sumanth Korikkar <sumanthk@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230830000545.1638964-1-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/pmu.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/pmu.c b/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
index cde33e01959a..b3f8f3f1e900 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
@@ -532,6 +532,7 @@ static int perf_pmu__new_alias(struct perf_pmu *pmu, const char *name,
if (!alias)
return -ENOMEM;
+ alias->str = NULL;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&alias->terms);
alias->scale = 1.0;
alias->unit[0] = '\0';
@@ -593,6 +594,7 @@ static int perf_pmu__new_alias(struct perf_pmu *pmu, const char *name,
ret += scnprintf(newval + ret, sizeof(newval) - ret,
"%s=%s", term->config, term->val.str);
}
+ zfree(&alias->str);
alias->str = strdup(newval);
if (!pe)
pmu->sysfs_aliases++;