From: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com> stable inclusion from linux-4.19.149 commit dd155a48a0c9b53404b30f6f92ccf9f8160378c1 -------------------------------- [ Upstream commit 07e9a6f538cbeecaf5c55b6f2991416f873cdcbd ] Need to free "str" before return when asprintf() failed to avoid memory leak. Signed-off-by: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hongbo Yao <yaohongbo@huawei.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Li Bin <huawei.libin@huawei.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200521133218.30150-4-liwei391@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com> --- tools/perf/util/sort.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/sort.c b/tools/perf/util/sort.c index 46daa22b86e3..85ff4f68adc0 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/sort.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/sort.c @@ -2690,7 +2690,7 @@ static char *prefix_if_not_in(const char *pre, char *str) return str; if (asprintf(&n, "%s,%s", pre, str) < 0) - return NULL; + n = NULL; free(str); return n; -- 2.25.1