Unlike the in-kernel trace_seq which uses a statically allocated buffer,
the userspace traceevent library's trace_seq uses a dynamically allocated
one. Therefore, every trace_seq_init() call must be paired with a
trace_seq_destroy(), otherwise it produces a memory leak.
In process_sample_event(), a trace_seq is initialized for each field when
formatting tracepoint raw_data, but the matching trace_seq_destroy() is
never called, leaking memory for every field of every sample processed.
Add the missing trace_seq_destroy() after using the trace_seq buffer to
properly free the allocated memory.
Detected with Valgrind on a perf.data file with 2,729 tracepoint samples:
Before: definitely lost: 55,537,664 bytes in 13,559 blocks
After: definitely lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
Fixes: 9d895e468429 ("perf data: Add tracepoint fields when converting to JSON")
Signed-off-by: Tanushree Shah <[email protected]>
---
tools/perf/util/data-convert-json.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/data-convert-json.c
b/tools/perf/util/data-convert-json.c
index d526c91312ed..6dd9349ab10f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/data-convert-json.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/data-convert-json.c
@@ -257,6 +257,7 @@ static int process_sample_event(const struct perf_tool
*tool,
trace_seq_init(&s);
tep_print_field(&s, sample->raw_data,
fields[i]);
output_json_key_string(out, true, 3,
fields[i]->name, s.buffer);
+ trace_seq_destroy(&s);
i++;
}
--
2.47.3