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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2023-04-12 09:50:08 -0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2023-04-12 10:12:55 -0300
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perf genelf: Use zfree() to reduce chances of use after free
Do defensive programming by using zfree() to initialize freed pointers to NULL, so that eventual use after free result in a NULL pointer deref instead of more subtle behaviour. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/genelf_debug.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/genelf_debug.c b/tools/perf/util/genelf_debug.c
index 8786c366566e..aa5dcc56b2ac 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/genelf_debug.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/genelf_debug.c
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
* @author Philippe Elie
*/
#include <linux/compiler.h>
+#include <linux/zalloc.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <getopt.h>
@@ -90,7 +91,7 @@ buffer_ext_init(struct buffer_ext *be)
static void
buffer_ext_exit(struct buffer_ext *be)
{
- free(be->data);
+ zfree(&be->data);
}
static inline size_t