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perf pmu: Fix a potential memory leak in perf_pmu__lookup()
authorChristophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Sat, 26 Aug 2023 21:32:45 +0000 (23:32 +0200)
committerSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 22:17:14 +0000 (18:17 -0400)
commit432a06b33153190ebb3fff47eb19c1ca608a557d
tree3f8de31b14aea9088938ae55f65d638cba2207fc
parent770c2ba4fe9485216eacb4e70d531ada297ba325
perf pmu: Fix a potential memory leak in perf_pmu__lookup()

[ Upstream commit ef5de1613d7d92bdc975e6beb34bb0fa94f34078 ]

The commit in Fixes has reordered some code, but missed an error handling
path.

'goto err' now, in order to avoid a memory leak in case of error.

Fixes: f63a536f03a2 ("perf pmu: Merge JSON events with sysfs at load time")
Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9538b2b634894c33168dfe9d848d4df31fd4d801.1693085544.git.christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
tools/perf/util/pmu.c