Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 4 authors, 2026-01-23

Re: [PATCH v2] scripts/tracepoint-update: fix memory leak in add_string() on failure

From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Date: 2026-01-23 17:42:00
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On Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:22:53 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu (Google) [off-list ref] wrote:
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Fix this by freeing *vals and setting it to NULL when realloc() fails.
This makes the error handling self-contained in add_string() so callers
don't need to handle cleanup on failure.  
This looks not enough. If the memory allocation is failed, it should NOT
continue anything.

I think we need to make the command itself failure when it fails to
allocate memory, as below:
That's a separate bug. I'm taking this current patch as-is as a fix for the
leak. Not stopping immediately is a separate issue.

-- Steve
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