Aditya Gupta ab656dd9fc libsubcmd: Don't free the usage string
[ Upstream commit 1a5efc9e13f357abc396dbf445b25d08914c8060 ]

Currently, commands which depend on 'parse_options_subcommand()' don't
show the usage string, and instead show '(null)'

    $ ./perf sched
	Usage: (null)

    -D, --dump-raw-trace  dump raw trace in ASCII
    -f, --force           don't complain, do it
    -i, --input <file>    input file name
    -v, --verbose         be more verbose (show symbol address, etc)

'parse_options_subcommand()' is generally expected to initialise the usage
string, with information in the passed 'subcommands[]' array

This behaviour was changed in:

  230a7a71f92212e7 ("libsubcmd: Fix parse-options memory leak")

Where the generated usage string is deallocated, and usage[0] string is
reassigned as NULL.

As discussed in [1], free the allocated usage string in the main
function itself, and don't reset usage string to NULL in
parse_options_subcommand

With this change, the behaviour is restored.

    $ ./perf sched
        Usage: perf sched [<options>] {record|latency|map|replay|script|timehist}

           -D, --dump-raw-trace  dump raw trace in ASCII
           -f, --force           don't complain, do it
           -i, --input <file>    input file name
           -v, --verbose         be more verbose (show symbol address, etc)

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/htq5vhx6piet4nuq2mmhk7fs2bhfykv52dbppwxmo3s7du2odf@styd27tioc6e/

Fixes: 230a7a71f92212e7 ("libsubcmd: Fix parse-options memory leak")
Suggested-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Aditya Gupta <adityag@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Disha Goel <disgoel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240904061836.55873-2-adityag@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2024-10-17 15:24:13 +02:00
2024-10-10 11:58:02 +02:00
2024-10-10 12:50:06 +02:00

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