When it tries to free 'str', it was already updated by strsep() - so
it needs to save the original pointer.

  # perf kmem stat -s xxx,hit
    Error: Unknown --sort key: 'xxx'
  *** Error in `perf': free(): invalid pointer: 0x0000000000e9e7b6 ***
  ======= Backtrace: =========
  /usr/lib/libc.so.6(+0x7198e)[0x7fc7e6e0d98e]
  /usr/lib/libc.so.6(+0x76dee)[0x7fc7e6e12dee]
  /usr/lib/libc.so.6(+0x775cb)[0x7fc7e6e135cb]
  ./perf[0x44a1b5]
  ./perf[0x490b20]
  ./perf(parse_options_step+0x173)[0x491773]
  ./perf(parse_options_subcommand+0xa7)[0x491fb7]
  ./perf(cmd_kmem+0x2bc)[0x44ae4c]
  ./perf[0x47aa13]
  ./perf(main+0x60a)[0x427a9a]
  /usr/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf0)[0x7fc7e6dbc800]
  ./perf(_start+0x29)[0x427bb9]

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhy...@kernel.org>
---
 tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c b/tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c
index f295141025bc..a0da5fb44b9e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c
@@ -559,6 +559,7 @@ static int setup_sorting(struct list_head *sort_list, const 
char *arg)
 {
        char *tok;
        char *str = strdup(arg);
+       char *pos = str;
 
        if (!str) {
                pr_err("%s: strdup failed\n", __func__);
@@ -566,7 +567,7 @@ static int setup_sorting(struct list_head *sort_list, const 
char *arg)
        }
 
        while (true) {
-               tok = strsep(&str, ",");
+               tok = strsep(&pos, ",");
                if (!tok)
                        break;
                if (sort_dimension__add(tok, sort_list) < 0) {
-- 
2.3.1

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