perf symbol: Avoid memory leak from abi::__cxa_demangle

Rather than allocate memory, allow abi::__cxa_demangle to do
that. This avoids a problem where on error NULL was returned
triggering a memory leak.

Fixes: 3b4e4efe88f615f1 ("perf symbol: Add abi::__cxa_demangle C++ demangling support")
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexey Bayduraev <alexey.v.bayduraev@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: André Almeida <andrealmeid@collabora.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: German Gomez <german.gomez@arm.com>
Cc: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Riccardo Mancini <rickyman7@gmail.com>
Cc: Shunsuke Nakamura <nakamura.shun@fujitsu.com>
Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230320033810.980165-2-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/demangle-cxx.cpp b/tools/perf/util/demangle-cxx.cpp
index 8708bca..85b7066 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/perf/util/demangle-cxx.cpp
+++ b/tools/perf/util/demangle-cxx.cpp
@@ -38,11 +38,10 @@ char *cxx_demangle_sym(const char *str, bool params __maybe_unused,
 
         return cplus_demangle(str, flags);
 #elif defined(HAVE_CXA_DEMANGLE_SUPPORT)
-        size_t len = strlen(str);
-        char *output = (char*)malloc(len);
+        char *output;
         int status;
 
-        output = abi::__cxa_demangle(str, output, &len, &status);
+        output = abi::__cxa_demangle(str, /*output_buffer=*/NULL, /*length=*/NULL, &status);
         return output;
 #else
         return NULL;