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Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:/SOuc7GfRiQJMJtrmFqz1/zIoBMxNwPKAfPPx9UCmpAJeAyoYnE E2Z0zwWikpPilLMcN28gnlHQIeqULPGAFZCkwL/1ZDrCAgBjDU0s4H1f8qPfnZLN3FZZQaT i4cVSltA7EudzgkQcQp7AKClmKQfD1Fk0qKVlZskleJfsgxg3l+Alzs1z6mb8krOydPIhKP 1BUoSMYx2QwDKXqBHYxCA== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:0Wcpzl6P27k=:SWxtTh+K/vKyPSV171TUVB UsE+s6NC7DtHZZzf7zfVrYTgIzDQPPX4HmwqeW5MK1TK4NFHqPDM5keTZw/W6kbHLr3MJPTTs /NphTN1V321ykW4AUVqXdvdXvGwC0DlDgHcKy4nyR27NLYYX+AE20oV2M2L71P3eeZlJkf3gC UwJQK1QmRvmSWGbNHYzY2ihFx8KwjRVFogG+313/Ia1EGD8hTmfBioXGp4XiI0v9WjomXm7L7 7WjDCQ/6sjhoi6UQ19Vh3Lt194rNvNoNtOwM7jQnLh3d9v3Gxg7e1VX8ccNExcY2OHf6+73rM yyNRHgqvUZ4M99rdJSM+QIE9NK6bxA55phTrvn505qXv3TYh2/H2DgHoISbdQ6b1+gY3V3zs7 UCs8LskqlM1CPalqg7m7u8ZXQqtMcN2zHQRxaWl+gWeJEkiyJ0ms/o4O88JZPUPCscW+Hb6MD GkN8SymE8XviIjmKnUXfLo6X6AQ7Ueet0iDVPU7r/M7mVt3q978J7eOvoCs1jmpUYOYSfXr+P f9wBe5LIV6XAFwlnbJunMIF2AW23bSllkwASRAqAPE3d2m3Rnnx1nbVxigwKi9tHIqy6hvcRS 57TQcc2xTmYk8YfC+loBn/j2ppPUpawcEpY83vqW5I4S/9joK5u/h6jFhQP7R679nz2DJobEx EvAnO+MJ0dW8UR4uY/bzVDRxF9KIfiNXyIn8lWD48Ei5iNFLoV4ivD1dbXTh37wwjPtc5EG15 7gegMqDn2lUwKQgL2wftFxTk2f+mVuPEWUoSfhj4QisllH76bq6RLxB1T6rKTLQk+mqM4UWcR DGtg81M9ZftlBCs1kPyQ1aFpkKK/XaqA1fepinFHCJGyK8Y5nezFjVA5aCsefokky5xU9jwMi Xs5kJgt97Eit96Cos7Ki86KojuKiSoBV2ZMqcUO2IQ5AlI0IwGc5hen7LQ1AiHEz2LcxmOkx/ fJopWb4ezH4aN79Fix+V18wIeyq6oNBHdh9FkSdGdbTXSiB35v3fyJT3/wXrqKkYy/NPFuH90 Pmdx5Ki8goTwJ3Jf5VAL6nO+P/OEGNuLVRQsWIQiktT/8giqHU/DbuXHBAtOJnVGTfBQfY1qI xPcX9FCFiyRbKaVPCUThK+RUYoSweCbkNCz8s15lWgPNP/IKrpBpVsnKlIGcGFbwjWQ9chgKz z2cdfgJ6Xkq1q7uWOv5R+5P0kzIsgVB8HP1urwTZnwAObB58SwwehLSDYpN+lrOgDki/xfuHD HfepaReQxOZSD2WNS Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > In the header.c file, some functions allocate memory after using > do_read_string, but the corresponding memory is not released after > subsequent processing errors, causing memory leaks. I suggest to choose an imperative wording for this change description. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Do= cumentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?id=3Dcd77006e01b3198c75fb7819b3= d0ff89709539bb#n151 =E2=80=A6 > +++ b/tools/perf/util/header.c > @@ -2307,8 +2307,10 @@ static int process_cpu_topology(struct feat_fd *= ff, void *data __maybe_unused) > goto error; > > /* include a NULL character at the end */ > - if (strbuf_add(&sb, str, strlen(str) + 1) < 0) > + if (strbuf_add(&sb, str, strlen(str) + 1) < 0) { > + free(str); > goto error; > + } > size +=3D string_size(str); =E2=80=A6 I propose to add the jump target =E2=80=9Cfree_str=E2=80=9D for nicer exce= ption handling in this function implementation. Regards, Markus