perf mem: Don't leak mem event names

When preparing the mem events for the argv copies are intentionally
made. These copies are leaked and cause runs of perf using address
sanitizer to fail. Rather than leak the memory allocate a chunk of
memory for the mem event names upfront and build the strings in this -
the storage is sized larger than the previous buffer size. The caller
is then responsible for clearing up this memory. As part of this
change, remove the mem_loads_name and mem_stores_name global buffers
then change the perf_pmu__mem_events_name to write to an out argument
buffer.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250308012853.1384762-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c b/tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c
index 15e1fce71c722..5d5bb0f32334a 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c
@@ -3239,6 +3239,7 @@ static int perf_c2c__record(int argc, const char **argv)
 {
 	int rec_argc, i = 0, j;
 	const char **rec_argv;
+	char *event_name_storage = NULL;
 	int ret;
 	bool all_user = false, all_kernel = false;
 	bool event_set = false;
@@ -3300,7 +3301,7 @@ static int perf_c2c__record(int argc, const char **argv)
 	rec_argv[i++] = "--phys-data";
 	rec_argv[i++] = "--sample-cpu";
 
-	ret = perf_mem_events__record_args(rec_argv, &i);
+	ret = perf_mem_events__record_args(rec_argv, &i, &event_name_storage);
 	if (ret)
 		goto out;
 
@@ -3327,6 +3328,7 @@ static int perf_c2c__record(int argc, const char **argv)
 
 	ret = cmd_record(i, rec_argv);
 out:
+	free(event_name_storage);
 	free(rec_argv);
 	return ret;
 }