Re: [Powertop] [PATCH 2/2] perf: Check return value of strdup

The strdup() can return NULL so that the result should be checked. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung(a)gmail.com&gt; --- src/perf/perf.cpp | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/perf/perf.cpp b/src/perf/perf.cpp index c8ba7a8..35b4017 100644 --- a/src/perf/perf.cpp +++ b/src/perf/perf.cpp @@ -145,6 +145,11 @@ void perf_event::set_event_name(const char *event_name) if (name) free(name); name = strdup(event_name); + if (!name) { + fprintf(stderr, "failed to allocate event name\n"); + return; + } + char *c; c = strchr(name, ':');