Hi,

It seems this patch not appeared in any repo, so ping..

On 2015/3/4 20:46, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
(2015/03/04 19:01), He Kuang wrote:
A double free occurred when get source file path failed. If lr->path
failed to assign a new value, it will be freed as the old path and then
be freed again during line_range__clear(), and causes this:

   $ perf probe -L do_execve -k vmlinux
   *** Error in `/usr/bin/perf': double free or corruption (fasttop):
       0x0000000000a9ac50 ***
   ======= Backtrace: =========
   ../lib64/libc.so.6(+0x6eeef)[0x7ffff5e44eef]
   ../lib64/libc.so.6(+0x78cae)[0x7ffff5e4ecae]
   ../lib64/libc.so.6(+0x79987)[0x7ffff5e4f987]
   ../bin/perf[0x4ab41f]
   ...

This patch fix this problem.
Good catch!

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu...@hitachi.com>

Thank you,

Signed-off-by: He Kuang <heku...@huawei.com>
---
  tools/perf/util/probe-event.c | 6 +++++-
  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
index 919937e..7df30bd 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
@@ -650,7 +650,11 @@ static int __show_line_range(struct line_range *lr, const 
char *module)
        /* Convert source file path */
        tmp = lr->path;
        ret = get_real_path(tmp, lr->comp_dir, &lr->path);
-       free(tmp);      /* Free old path */
+
+       /* Free old path when new path is assigned */
+       if (tmp != lr->path)
+               free(tmp);
+
        if (ret < 0) {
                pr_warning("Failed to find source file path.\n");
                return ret;




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