Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 04 Mar 2015 21:46:55 +0900 | From | Masami Hiramatsu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] perf tools: Fix possible double free on error |
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(2015/03/04 19:01), He Kuang wrote: > A double free occurred when get source file path failed. If lr->path > failed to assign a new value, it will be freed as the old path and then > be freed again during line_range__clear(), and causes this: > > $ perf probe -L do_execve -k vmlinux > *** Error in `/usr/bin/perf': double free or corruption (fasttop): > 0x0000000000a9ac50 *** > ======= Backtrace: ========= > ../lib64/libc.so.6(+0x6eeef)[0x7ffff5e44eef] > ../lib64/libc.so.6(+0x78cae)[0x7ffff5e4ecae] > ../lib64/libc.so.6(+0x79987)[0x7ffff5e4f987] > ../bin/perf[0x4ab41f] > ... > > This patch fix this problem.
Good catch!
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Thank you,
> > Signed-off-by: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> > --- > tools/perf/util/probe-event.c | 6 +++++- > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c > index 919937e..7df30bd 100644 > --- a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c > +++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c > @@ -650,7 +650,11 @@ static int __show_line_range(struct line_range *lr, const char *module) > /* Convert source file path */ > tmp = lr->path; > ret = get_real_path(tmp, lr->comp_dir, &lr->path); > - free(tmp); /* Free old path */ > + > + /* Free old path when new path is assigned */ > + if (tmp != lr->path) > + free(tmp); > + > if (ret < 0) { > pr_warning("Failed to find source file path.\n"); > return ret; >
-- Masami HIRAMATSU Software Platform Research Dept. Linux Technology Research Center Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com
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