From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751207AbdIOJk1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Sep 2017 05:40:27 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([65.50.211.136]:38275 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750879AbdIOJk0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Sep 2017 05:40:26 -0400 Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 02:36:48 -0700 From: tip-bot for Martin Kepplinger Message-ID: Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, martink@posteo.de, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, jpoimboe@redhat.com, mingo@kernel.org Reply-To: tglx@linutronix.de, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, martink@posteo.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, mingo@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, jpoimboe@redhat.com In-Reply-To: <20170914060138.26472-1-martink@posteo.de> References: <20170914060138.26472-1-martink@posteo.de> To: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: [tip:core/urgent] objtool: Fix memory leak in elf_create_rela_section() Git-Commit-ID: 0998b7a0befdf6e734032895ee639a5e6f88cc3f X-Mailer: tip-git-log-daemon Robot-ID: Robot-Unsubscribe: Contact to get blacklisted from these emails MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Commit-ID: 0998b7a0befdf6e734032895ee639a5e6f88cc3f Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/0998b7a0befdf6e734032895ee639a5e6f88cc3f Author: Martin Kepplinger AuthorDate: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 08:01:38 +0200 Committer: Ingo Molnar 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 Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: mingo.kernel.org@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170914060138.26472-1-martink@posteo.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- 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;