perf jevents: Fix suspicious code in fixregex()

The new string should have enough space for the original string and the
back slashes IMHO.

Fixes: fbc2844e84038ce3 ("perf vendor events: Use more flexible pattern matching for CPU identification for mapfile.csv")
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200903152510.489233-1-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.c b/tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.c
index fa86c5f997cc54158aa9ab9c93440c3af06685ad..fc9c158bfa134efa1c9832398c0a62ce0b905f5e 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.c
+++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.c
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ static char *fixregex(char *s)
                return s;
 
        /* allocate space for a new string */
-       fixed = (char *) malloc(len + 1);
+       fixed = (char *) malloc(len + esc_count + 1);
        if (!fixed)
                return NULL;