tools api: Avoid potential double free

io__getline will free the line on error but it doesn't clear the out
argument. This may lead to the line being freed twice, like in
tools/perf/util/srcline.c as detected by clang-tidy.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <[email protected]>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <[email protected]>
Cc: Yang Jihong <[email protected]>
Cc: Huacai Chen <[email protected]>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <[email protected]>
Cc: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Ming Wang <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Rix <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/lib/api/io.h b/tools/lib/api/io.h
index 9fc429d2852d..a77b74c5fb65 100644
--- a/tools/lib/api/io.h
+++ b/tools/lib/api/io.h
@@ -180,6 +180,7 @@ static inline ssize_t io__getline(struct io *io, char **line_out, size_t *line_l
 	return line_len;
 err_out:
 	free(line);
+	*line_out = NULL;
 	return -ENOMEM;
 }