perf probe: Fix event namelist to duplicate string
authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Mon, 7 Dec 2009 17:00:46 +0000 (12:00 -0500)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Mon, 7 Dec 2009 17:33:21 +0000 (18:33 +0100)
Fix event namelist to duplicate string. Without duplicating, adding
multiple probes causes stack overwrite bug, because it reuses a
buffer on stack while the buffer is already added in the namelist.
String duplication solves this bug because only contents of the
buffer is copied to the namelist.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091207170046.19230.55557.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
tools/perf/util/probe-event.c

index cd7fbda..de0d913 100644 (file)
@@ -413,12 +413,13 @@ static struct strlist *get_perf_event_names(int fd)
 
        rawlist = get_trace_kprobe_event_rawlist(fd);
 
-       sl = strlist__new(false, NULL);
+       sl = strlist__new(true, NULL);
        for (i = 0; i < strlist__nr_entries(rawlist); i++) {
                ent = strlist__entry(rawlist, i);
                parse_trace_kprobe_event(ent->s, &group, &event, NULL);
                strlist__add(sl, event);
                free(group);
+               free(event);
        }
 
        strlist__delete(rawlist);
@@ -480,5 +481,6 @@ void add_trace_kprobe_events(struct probe_point *probes, int nr_probes)
                        strlist__add(namelist, event);
                }
        }
+       strlist__delete(namelist);
        close(fd);
 }