linux/tools/lib
Aditya Gupta 54adbacfa1 libsubcmd: Don't free the usage string
[ Upstream commit 1a5efc9e13 ]

Currently, commands which depend on 'parse_options_subcommand()' don't
show the usage string, and instead show '(null)'

    $ ./perf sched
	Usage: (null)

    -D, --dump-raw-trace  dump raw trace in ASCII
    -f, --force           don't complain, do it
    -i, --input <file>    input file name
    -v, --verbose         be more verbose (show symbol address, etc)

'parse_options_subcommand()' is generally expected to initialise the usage
string, with information in the passed 'subcommands[]' array

This behaviour was changed in:

  230a7a71f9 ("libsubcmd: Fix parse-options memory leak")

Where the generated usage string is deallocated, and usage[0] string is
reassigned as NULL.

As discussed in [1], free the allocated usage string in the main
function itself, and don't reset usage string to NULL in
parse_options_subcommand

With this change, the behaviour is restored.

    $ ./perf sched
        Usage: perf sched [<options>] {record|latency|map|replay|script|timehist}

           -D, --dump-raw-trace  dump raw trace in ASCII
           -f, --force           don't complain, do it
           -i, --input <file>    input file name
           -v, --verbose         be more verbose (show symbol address, etc)

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/htq5vhx6piet4nuq2mmhk7fs2bhfykv52dbppwxmo3s7du2odf@styd27tioc6e/

Fixes: 230a7a71f9 ("libsubcmd: Fix parse-options memory leak")
Suggested-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Aditya Gupta <adityag@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Disha Goel <disgoel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240904061836.55873-2-adityag@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2024-10-17 15:22:11 +02:00
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api libapi: Add missing linux/types.h header to get the __u64 type on io.h 2024-01-25 15:27:46 -08:00
bpf libbpf: Add NULL checks to bpf_object__{prev_map,next_map} 2024-09-12 11:10:23 +02:00
perf libperf evlist: Avoid out-of-bounds access 2024-04-13 13:05:12 +02:00
subcmd libsubcmd: Don't free the usage string 2024-10-17 15:22:11 +02:00
symbol kallsyms: increase maximum kernel symbol length to 512 2022-09-28 08:56:25 +02:00
thermal tools/lib/thermal: Fix thermal_sampling_exit() 2023-03-10 09:33:05 +01:00
traceevent libtraceevent: Add __rel_loc relative location attribute support 2021-12-06 15:37:22 -05:00
argv_split.c tools lib: Move argv_{split,free} from tools/perf/util/ 2019-07-01 22:50:40 -03:00
bitmap.c Bitmap patches for v6.0-rc1 2022-08-07 17:52:35 -07:00
ctype.c tools perf: Move from sane_ctype.h obtained from git to the Linux's original 2019-06-25 21:02:47 -03:00
find_bit.c tools: sync find_bit() implementation 2022-09-21 12:21:44 -07:00
hweight.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
list_sort.c tools lib: Adopt list_sort() from the kernel sources 2021-10-20 10:30:59 -03:00
rbtree.c tools/: replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones 2020-08-07 11:33:21 -07:00
slab.c tools: Move gfp.h and slab.h from radix-tree to lib 2022-02-20 08:44:37 +02:00
str_error_r.c objtool, perf: Fix GCC 8 -Wrestrict error 2018-03-19 13:51:54 -03:00
string.c tools lib: Adopt memchr_inv() from kernel 2020-11-27 08:34:52 -03:00
vsprintf.c perf script: Pad DSO name for --call-trace 2019-05-28 18:37:44 -03:00
zalloc.c tools lib: Adopt zalloc()/zfree() from tools/perf 2019-07-09 10:13:26 -03:00