From 046625231a0397f1776eb353a4ec9ff142cd2f6b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 17:41:15 -0300
Subject: 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>
---
 tools/perf/util/probe-event.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

(limited to 'tools/perf/util/probe-event.c')

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;
 		}
 	}
-- 
cgit v1.2.3