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perf header: Fix bogus group name

When processing event group descriptor in perf file header, we reuse an
allocated group name but forgot to prevent it from freeing.

Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1384741244-7271-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

authored by

Namhyung Kim and committed by
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
210e812f a5285ad9

+3 -1
+3 -1
tools/perf/util/header.c
··· 2078 2078 if (evsel->idx == (int) desc[i].leader_idx) { 2079 2079 evsel->leader = evsel; 2080 2080 /* {anon_group} is a dummy name */ 2081 - if (strcmp(desc[i].name, "{anon_group}")) 2081 + if (strcmp(desc[i].name, "{anon_group}")) { 2082 2082 evsel->group_name = desc[i].name; 2083 + desc[i].name = NULL; 2084 + } 2083 2085 evsel->nr_members = desc[i].nr_members; 2084 2086 2085 2087 if (i >= nr_groups || nr > 0) {