Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/9] perf tools: splice events onto evlist even on error

From: Jiri Olsa <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 10:01:42 +0200

On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 12:01:55PM -0700, Ian Rogers wrote:
> If event parsing fails the event list is leaked, instead splice the list
> onto the out result and let the caller cleanup.
> 
> An example input for parse_events found by libFuzzer that reproduces
> this memory leak is 'm{'.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 17 +++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
> index edb3ae76777d..f0d50f079d2f 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
> @@ -1968,15 +1968,20 @@ int parse_events(struct evlist *evlist, const char *str,
>  
>  	ret = parse_events__scanner(str, &parse_state, PE_START_EVENTS);
>  	perf_pmu__parse_cleanup();
> +
> +	if (!ret && list_empty(&parse_state.list)) {
> +		WARN_ONCE(true, "WARNING: event parser found nothing\n");
> +		return -1;
> +	}
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Add list to the evlist even with errors to allow callers to clean up.
> +	 */
> +	perf_evlist__splice_list_tail(evlist, &parse_state.list);

I still dont understand this one.. if there was an error, the list
should be empty, right? also if there's an error and there's something
on the list, what is it? how it gets deleted?

thanks,
jirka

> +
>  	if (!ret) {
>  		struct evsel *last;
>  
> -		if (list_empty(&parse_state.list)) {
> -			WARN_ONCE(true, "WARNING: event parser found nothing\n");
> -			return -1;
> -		}
> -
> -		perf_evlist__splice_list_tail(evlist, &parse_state.list);
>  		evlist->nr_groups += parse_state.nr_groups;
>  		last = evlist__last(evlist);
>  		last->cmdline_group_boundary = true;
> -- 
> 2.23.0.866.gb869b98d4c-goog
>