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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2013-12-26 17:41:15 -0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2013-12-27 15:17:00 -0300
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perf tools: Introduce zfree
For the frequent idiom of: free(ptr); ptr = NULL; Make it expect a pointer to the pointer being freed, so that it becomes clear at first sight that the variable being freed is being modified. Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-pfw02ezuab37kha18wlut7ir@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util/probe-event.c')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/probe-event.c6
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
index 095a98ec7444..4d3cd1a0278a 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
@@ -506,15 +506,13 @@ static int get_real_path(const char *raw_path, const char *comp_dir,
case EFAULT:
raw_path = strchr(++raw_path, '/');
if (!raw_path) {
- free(*new_path);
- *new_path = NULL;
+ zfree(new_path);
return -ENOENT;
}
continue;
default:
- free(*new_path);
- *new_path = NULL;
+ zfree(new_path);
return -errno;
}
}