Zhaopeng Li <[email protected]> writes:

> At line 534 of coreutils/lib/locale_charset.c, var ‘aliases' points
> to a buffer which is allocated using malloc() .

> This buffer is not freed when codeset is still an empty string after
> the loop (Line 534~542).
>
> So it will be leaked under such situation.

> Line 533    /* Resolve alias. */
> Line 534   for (aliases = get_charset_aliases ();

I got the same error from clang-analyzer, but I think the leak is
intentional and harmless.  The return value of get_charset_aliases is
saved in a global variable charset_aliases and won't be allocated twice.

Regards,
--
Daiki Ueno



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