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/alias.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

(limited to 'tools/perf/util/alias.c')

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/alias.c b/tools/perf/util/alias.c
index e6d134773d0a..c0b43ee40d95 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/alias.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/alias.c
@@ -55,8 +55,7 @@ int split_cmdline(char *cmdline, const char ***argv)
 				src++;
 				c = cmdline[src];
 				if (!c) {
-					free(*argv);
-					*argv = NULL;
+					zfree(argv);
 					return error("cmdline ends with \\");
 				}
 			}
@@ -68,8 +67,7 @@ int split_cmdline(char *cmdline, const char ***argv)
 	cmdline[dst] = 0;
 
 	if (quoted) {
-		free(*argv);
-		*argv = NULL;
+		zfree(argv);
 		return error("unclosed quote");
 	}
 
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