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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo fe3ab00d55 perf libbfd: Fix memory leaks and NULL fclose in BPF disassembly
symbol__disassemble_bpf_libbfd() has four resource management bugs:

1. free(prog_linfo) leaks internal arrays.  bpf_prog_linfo contains
   raw_linfo, raw_jited_linfo, nr_jited_linfo_per_func, and
   jited_linfo_func_idx pointers that are only freed by the proper
   destructor bpf_prog_linfo__free().

2. open_memstream(&buf, &buf_size) allocates a dynamic buffer that the
   caller must free after fclose().  The function calls fclose(s) but
   never free(buf), leaking the stream buffer on every call.

3. args->line = strdup(srcline) is immediately consumed by
   disasm_line__new(args) which internally calls strdup(args->line)
   again via annotation_line__init().  The first strdup result is then
   overwritten by args->line = buf + prev_buf_size without being freed.

4. If open_memstream() fails, the error path jumps to 'out:' which
   calls fclose(s) with s == NULL — undefined behavior.

Fix by using bpf_prog_linfo__free(), initializing buf to NULL, adding
free(buf) after fclose(s), guarding fclose() against NULL, and removing
the redundant strdup since annotation_line__init() makes its own copy.

Fixes: 6987561c9e ("perf annotate: Enable annotation of BPF programs")
Reported-by: sashiko-bot <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4.6
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2026-08-05 11:20:03 -07:00
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