perf tools: Make perf_exec_path() always return malloc'd string

Since system_path() returns malloc'd string if given path is not an
absolute path, perf_exec_path() sometimes returns a static string and
sometimes returns a malloc'd string depending on the environment
variables or command options.

This may cause a memory leak because the caller can not unconditionally
free the returned string.

This fixes perf_exec_path() and system_path() to always return a
malloc'd string, so the caller can always free it.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151119060453.14210.65666.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/exec_cmd.c b/tools/perf/util/exec_cmd.c
index 7adf4ad15d8f..1099e92f5ee1 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/exec_cmd.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/exec_cmd.c
@@ -9,17 +9,17 @@
 static const char *argv_exec_path;
 static const char *argv0_path;
 
-const char *system_path(const char *path)
+char *system_path(const char *path)
 {
 	static const char *prefix = PREFIX;
 	struct strbuf d = STRBUF_INIT;
 
 	if (is_absolute_path(path))
-		return path;
+		return strdup(path);
 
 	strbuf_addf(&d, "%s/%s", prefix, path);
 	path = strbuf_detach(&d, NULL);
-	return path;
+	return (char *)path;
 }
 
 const char *perf_extract_argv0_path(const char *argv0)
@@ -52,17 +52,16 @@ void perf_set_argv_exec_path(const char *exec_path)
 
 
 /* Returns the highest-priority, location to look for perf programs. */
-const char *perf_exec_path(void)
+char *perf_exec_path(void)
 {
-	const char *env;
+	char *env;
 
 	if (argv_exec_path)
-		return argv_exec_path;
+		return strdup(argv_exec_path);
 
 	env = getenv(EXEC_PATH_ENVIRONMENT);
-	if (env && *env) {
-		return env;
-	}
+	if (env && *env)
+		return strdup(env);
 
 	return system_path(PERF_EXEC_PATH);
 }
@@ -83,9 +82,11 @@ void setup_path(void)
 {
 	const char *old_path = getenv("PATH");
 	struct strbuf new_path = STRBUF_INIT;
+	char *tmp = perf_exec_path();
 
-	add_path(&new_path, perf_exec_path());
+	add_path(&new_path, tmp);
 	add_path(&new_path, argv0_path);
+	free(tmp);
 
 	if (old_path)
 		strbuf_addstr(&new_path, old_path);