perf record: Fix a potential error handling issue

The evlist is allocated at the beginning of cmd_record().  Also free-ing
thread masks should be paired with record__init_thread_masks() which is
called right before __cmd_record().

Let's change the order of these functions to release the resources
correctly in case of errors.  This is maybe fine as the process exits,
but it might be a problem if it manages some system-wide resources that
live longer than the process.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240703223035.2024586-7-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index c599e620ee89..01fb95487a63 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -4242,13 +4242,13 @@ int cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv)
 
 	err = __cmd_record(&record, argc, argv);
 out:
-	evlist__delete(rec->evlist);
+	record__free_thread_masks(rec, rec->nr_threads);
+	rec->nr_threads = 0;
 	symbol__exit();
 	auxtrace_record__free(rec->itr);
 out_opts:
-	record__free_thread_masks(rec, rec->nr_threads);
-	rec->nr_threads = 0;
 	evlist__close_control(rec->opts.ctl_fd, rec->opts.ctl_fd_ack, &rec->opts.ctl_fd_close);
+	evlist__delete(rec->evlist);
 	return err;
 }