From: Petr Vorel <petr.vorel@gmail.com>
To: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: fix memory leak in sym_warn_unmet_dep()
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 19:50:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250120185041.GA870489@pevik> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250120081039.29006-1-masahiroy@kernel.org>
Hi Masahiro,
> The string allocated in sym_warn_unmet_dep() is never freed, leading
> to a memory leak when an unmet dependency is detected.
Reviewed-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
+1
I looked at other str_new() uses, but all looks to be using str_free()
(or return a pointer, which is freed by the caller).
Kind regards,
Petr
> Fixes: f8f69dc0b4e0 ("kconfig: make unmet dependency warnings readable")
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
> ---
> scripts/kconfig/symbol.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/symbol.c b/scripts/kconfig/symbol.c
> index 89b84bf8e21f..1521cdf62fce 100644
> --- a/scripts/kconfig/symbol.c
> +++ b/scripts/kconfig/symbol.c
> @@ -389,6 +389,7 @@ static void sym_warn_unmet_dep(const struct symbol *sym)
> fputs(str_get(&gs), stderr);
> sym_warnings++;
> + str_free(&gs);
> }
> bool sym_dep_errors(void)
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2025-01-20 8:10 [PATCH] kconfig: fix memory leak in sym_warn_unmet_dep() Masahiro Yamada
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