Re: [PATCH] objtool: avoid Memory leak: orig_alt_group

[Miroslav Benes]

Hi,

On Thu, 1 Jul 2021, gushengxian wrote:

> From: gushengxian <gushengxian@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> free(orig_alt_group) should be added in order to avoid memery leak.
> Reported by cppcheck.
> 
> Signed-off-by: gushengxian <gushengxian@xxxxxxxxxx>

It is not necessary. Objtool would exit immediately in case of this error 
and we do not handle the allocations in such cases. 

> ---
>  tools/objtool/check.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/objtool/check.c b/tools/objtool/check.c
> index e5947fbb9e7a..deb48b1bc16d 100644
> --- a/tools/objtool/check.c
> +++ b/tools/objtool/check.c
> @@ -1097,6 +1097,7 @@ static int handle_group_alt(struct objtool_file *file,
>  				     sizeof(struct cfi_state *));
>  	if (!orig_alt_group->cfi) {
>  		WARN("calloc failed");
> +		free(orig_alt_group);
>  		return -1;
>  	}

There are more sites like this in the code. For example there is one a 
couple of lines later in the same function. It is fine.

Regards
Miroslav