[PATCH 2/2] perf c2c: Clean up registered formats on c2c_hists__init() and c2c_hists__reinit() failure

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

When c2c_hists__init() or c2c_hists__reinit() calls hpp_list__parse()
and it fails partway through, format structures registered via
perf_hpp_list__column_register() and perf_hpp_list__register_sort_field()
are left on the hpp_list.

In c2c_hists__init(), only one of the callers, c2c_he__alloc_hists(),
handled this with perf_hpp__reset_output_field(), while perf_c2c_report()
did not, leaking the partially registered entries.

In c2c_hists__reinit(), neither perf_c2c_report() nor resort_cl_cb()
clean up on failure.

Fix by adding cleanup inside both functions themselves, so all callers
are protected, and remove the now redundant reset in c2c_he__alloc_hists().

Fixes: 78b275437873 ("perf c2c report: Add sample processing")
Reported-by: sashiko-bot <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4.6
Assisted-by: Opencode:mimo-v2.5-free
Assisted-by: Opencode:DeepSeek-V4-Flash-free
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
---
 tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c b/tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c
index 160b82694d391c50..bc16a57e092742ad 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c
@@ -229,7 +229,6 @@ he__get_c2c_hists(struct hist_entry *he,
 
 	ret = c2c_hists__init(hists, sort, nr_header_lines, env);
 	if (ret) {
-		perf_hpp__reset_output_field(&hists->list);
 		c2c_he->hists = NULL;
 		free(hists);
 		return NULL;
@@ -2147,6 +2146,8 @@ static int c2c_hists__init(struct c2c_hists *hists,
 			   int nr_header_lines,
 			   struct perf_env *env)
 {
+	int ret;
+
 	__hists__init(&hists->hists, &hists->list);
 
 	/*
@@ -2159,7 +2160,13 @@ static int c2c_hists__init(struct c2c_hists *hists,
 	/* Overload number of header lines.*/
 	hists->list.nr_header_lines = nr_header_lines;
 
-	return hpp_list__parse(&hists->list, /*output=*/NULL, sort, env);
+	ret = hpp_list__parse(&hists->list, /*output=*/NULL, sort, env);
+
+	/* Unregister any formats added before the failure point */
+	if (ret)
+		perf_hpp__reset_output_field(&hists->list);
+
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static int c2c_hists__reinit(struct c2c_hists *c2c_hists,
@@ -2167,8 +2174,16 @@ static int c2c_hists__reinit(struct c2c_hists *c2c_hists,
 			     const char *sort,
 			     struct perf_env *env)
 {
+	int ret;
+
 	perf_hpp__reset_output_field(&c2c_hists->list);
-	return hpp_list__parse(&c2c_hists->list, output, sort, env);
+	ret = hpp_list__parse(&c2c_hists->list, output, sort, env);
+
+	/* Unregister any formats added before the failure point */
+	if (ret)
+		perf_hpp__reset_output_field(&c2c_hists->list);
+
+	return ret;
 }
 
 #define DISPLAY_LINE_LIMIT  0.001
-- 
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