Pass ownership of the group name rather than copying and freeing the
original. This saves a memory allocation and copy.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
---
 tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 3 ++-
 tools/perf/util/parse-events.y | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
index 0336ff27c15f..1be454697d57 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
@@ -1761,6 +1761,7 @@ parse_events__set_leader_for_uncore_aliase(char *name, struct list_head *list,
 
 handled:
 	ret = 1;
+	free(name);
 out:
 	free(leaders);
 	return ret;
@@ -1786,7 +1787,7 @@ void parse_events__set_leader(char *name, struct list_head *list,
 
 	leader = arch_evlist__leader(list);
 	__perf_evlist__set_leader(list, &leader->core);
-	leader->group_name = name ? strdup(name) : NULL;
+	leader->group_name = name;
 	list_move(&leader->core.node, list);
 }
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.y b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.y
index be8c51770051..541b8dde2063 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.y
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.y
@@ -202,8 +202,8 @@ PE_NAME '{' events '}'
 	struct list_head *list = $3;
 
 	inc_group_count(list, _parse_state);
+	/* Takes ownership of $1. */
 	parse_events__set_leader($1, list, _parse_state);
-	free($1);
 	$$ = list;
 }
 |
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2.40.0.rc1.284.g88254d51c5-goog