Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Fri, 15 Sep 2017 02:36:48 -0700 | From | tip-bot for Martin Kepplinger <> | Subject | [tip:core/urgent] objtool: Fix memory leak in elf_create_rela_section() |
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Commit-ID: 0998b7a0befdf6e734032895ee639a5e6f88cc3f Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/0998b7a0befdf6e734032895ee639a5e6f88cc3f Author: Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de> AuthorDate: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 08:01:38 +0200 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> CommitDate: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 11:31:43 +0200
objtool: Fix memory leak in elf_create_rela_section()
Let's free the allocated char array 'relaname' before returning, in order to avoid leaking memory.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: mingo.kernel.org@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170914060138.26472-1-martink@posteo.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> --- tools/objtool/elf.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/tools/objtool/elf.c b/tools/objtool/elf.c index 6e9f980..1e89a5f 100644 --- a/tools/objtool/elf.c +++ b/tools/objtool/elf.c @@ -508,6 +508,7 @@ struct section *elf_create_rela_section(struct elf *elf, struct section *base) strcat(relaname, base->name); sec = elf_create_section(elf, relaname, sizeof(GElf_Rela), 0); + free(relaname); if (!sec) return NULL;
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