Commit 0998b7a0 authored Sep 14, 2017 by Martin Kepplinger Committed by Ingo Molnar Sep 15, 2017

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>

parent 711aab1d

tools/objtool/elf.c

+1 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -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;