From 5936f54d6ca2857d81188dcdff8c61b8fc482f53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Namhyung Kim Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 14:57:17 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] perf sort: Check return value of strdup() When setup_sorting() is called, 'str' is passed to strtok_r() but it's not checked to have a valid pointer. As strtok_r() accepts NULL pointer on a first argument and use the third argument in that case, it can cause a trouble since our third argument, tmp, is not initialized. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1360130237-9963-3-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/util/sort.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/sort.c b/tools/perf/util/sort.c index d8b4882..d41926c 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/sort.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/sort.c @@ -570,6 +570,11 @@ int setup_sorting(void) char *tmp, *tok, *str = strdup(sort_order); int ret = 0; + if (str == NULL) { + error("Not enough memory to setup sort keys"); + return -ENOMEM; + } + for (tok = strtok_r(str, ", ", &tmp); tok; tok = strtok_r(NULL, ", ", &tmp)) { ret = sort_dimension__add(tok); -- 2.7.4