From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
To: Tengda Wu <wutengda@huaweicloud.com>, Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sesse@google.com>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
james.clark@linaro.org, xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com,
Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
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Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@arm.com>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>,
Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers+lkml@gmail.com>,
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
Zecheng Li <zli94@ncsu.edu>,
linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
llvm@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf llvm: Fix memory leak of args->fileloc in symbol__disassemble_llvm()
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:59:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <arZF_Mphl3Rim0Gw@x2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <arZFMCzEiHbTL6IK@x2>
On Fri, Sep 25, 2026 at 11:56:04AM +0200, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2026 at 11:36:08AM -0700, Ian Rogers wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 5:58 AM Tengda Wu <wutengda@huaweicloud.com> wrote:
> > > In symbol__disassemble_llvm(), after calling llvm_addr2line(), if the
> > > subsequent disasm_line__new() fails, the code directly jumps to 'err'
> > > without freeing args->fileloc, leading to a memory leak.
>
> > > Fix this by explicitly calling free(args->fileloc) before jumping to
> > > the error handling path when disasm_line__new() fails.
>
> > > Fixes: 048856817888 ("perf annotate: LLVM-based disassembler")
> > > Signed-off-by: Tengda Wu <wutengda@huaweicloud.com>
>
> > Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
>
> I replaced the free() with a zfree(&), minor.
I understand why you didn't use zfree(), to make it consistent with the
other free, will keep it and leave the zfree() for later.
Sorry about the noise,
- Arnaldo
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-17 12:58 Tengda Wu
2026-09-21 18:36 ` Ian Rogers
2026-09-25 9:56 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-09-25 9:59 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
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