Re: [PATCH 01/11] parse-events: Free flag/sym field on failure path

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 13:58 +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> If parsing flag/sym field failed after allocating it, it
> should be freed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
> ---
>  parse-events.c |   14 +++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/parse-events.c b/parse-events.c
> index bd078ba..81e6581 100644
> --- a/parse-events.c
> +++ b/parse-events.c
> @@ -2166,10 +2166,10 @@ process_fields(struct event_format *event, struct print_flag_sym **list, char **
>  
>  		value = arg_eval(arg);
>  		if (value == NULL)
> -			goto out_free;
> +			goto out_free_field;

Instead of adding more goto's what, before the first goto "out_free"
add:

	field = NULL;

and since the field is allocated and also memset to zero, we could do in
the out_free:

	if (field) {
		free(field->value);
		free(field);
	}

I think that would be cleaner.

-- Steve

>  		field->value = strdup(value);
>  		if (field->value == NULL)
> -			goto out_free;
> +			goto out_free_field;
>  
>  		free_arg(arg);
>  		arg = alloc_arg();
> @@ -2177,14 +2177,14 @@ process_fields(struct event_format *event, struct print_flag_sym **list, char **
>  		free_token(token);
>  		type = process_arg(event, arg, &token);
>  		if (test_type_token(type, token, EVENT_OP, "}"))
> -			goto out_free;
> +			goto out_free_field_value;
>  
>  		value = arg_eval(arg);
>  		if (value == NULL)
> -			goto out_free;
> +			goto out_free_field_value;
>  		field->str = strdup(value);
>  		if (field->str == NULL)
> -			goto out_free;
> +			goto out_free_field_value;
>  		free_arg(arg);
>  		arg = NULL;
>  
> @@ -2198,6 +2198,10 @@ process_fields(struct event_format *event, struct print_flag_sym **list, char **
>  	*tok = token;
>  	return type;
>  
> +out_free_field_value:
> +	free(field->value);
> +out_free_field:
> +	free(field);
>  out_free:
>  	free_arg(arg);
>  	free_token(token);