[PATCH v3 0/3] perf tools: Fix memory issues
Michalis Niarchos <[email protected]> Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:51:51 +0200
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Running: $ perf kvm stat record -a sleep 10 gives this output: [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.361 MB perf.data.guest ] double free or corruption (!prev) In the process of resolving this, I came across some memory leaks. Signed-off-by: Michalis Niarchos <[email protected]> --- Changes in v3: - Moved dead code removal to the correct patch. - Squashed double free patches, as both fix the same rec_argv double-free/leak pattern. - Link to v2: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected] Changes in v2: - Removed code block that was rendered dead by the get_filename_for_perf_kvm() change. - Dropped invalid free() fix from kvm_events_report(). - Added double free fixes for: __cmd_record(), __cmd_report(), __cmd_buildid_list(), and __cmd_top(), which follow the same pattern as kvm_events_record(). - Link to v1: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected] To: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> To: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> To: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> To: Mark Rutland <[email protected]> To: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]> To: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> To: Ian Rogers <[email protected]> To: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> To: James Clark <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] --- Michalis Niarchos (3): perf tools: Fix memory leak in cmd_kvm() perf tools: Fix double free and memory leak issues perf tools: Fix memory leak in cmd_kvm() tools/perf/builtin-kvm.c | 99 +++++++++++------------- tools/perf/util/kvm-stat-arch/kvm-stat-powerpc.c | 4 +- tools/perf/util/kvm-stat-arch/kvm-stat-x86.c | 10 +-- 3 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-) --- base-commit: a1ed064cb4db70af8c4177b3805ca5b8b0be567e change-id: 20260731-perf-kvm-fixes-a17f0aa048ad Best regards, -- Michalis Niarchos <[email protected]>