Commit-ID:  5d0be52d44e32ae98b1345e9ecfa6a97783ca2c9
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/5d0be52d44e32ae98b1345e9ecfa6a97783ca2c9
Author:     Martin Kepplinger <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 08:01:38 +0200
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 16:02:30 +0200

tools/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 <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Don Zickus <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
---
 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;
 

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