From 261f491133aecb943ccfdc3b3794e2d775607a87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:13:36 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] perf config: Fix caching and memory leak in perf_home_perfconfig() Acaict, perf_home_perfconfig() is supposed to cache the result of home_perfconfig, which returns the default location of perfconfig for the user, given the HOME environment variable. However, the current implementation calls home_perfconfig every time perf_home_perfconfig() is called (so no caching is actually performed), replacing the previous pointer, thus also causing a memory leak. This patch adds a check of whether either config or failed is set and, in that case, directly returns config without calling home_perfconfig at each invocation. Fixes: f5f03e19ce14fc31 ("perf config: Add perf_home_perfconfig function") Signed-off-by: Riccardo Mancini Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Jin Yao Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Song Liu Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210820130817.740536-1-rickyman7@gmail.com [ Removed needless double check for the 'failed' variable ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/util/config.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/config.c b/tools/perf/util/config.c index 63d472b336de..4fb5e90d7a57 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/config.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/config.c @@ -581,7 +581,10 @@ const char *perf_home_perfconfig(void) static const char *config; static bool failed; - config = failed ? NULL : home_perfconfig(); + if (failed || config) + return config; + + config = home_perfconfig(); if (!config) failed = true; -- GitLab