[PATCH] sandbox: add memory leak debugging tooling around LeakSanitizer
Sascha Hauer
s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Tue Oct 28 00:57:57 PDT 2025
On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 08:44:45AM +0100, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> When enabled, this allows calling barebox_memleak_check() or running the
> checkleak command to instruct LeakSanitizer to sweep the memory and find
> unreferenced allocations.
>
> LeakSanitizier is also enabled along AddressSanitizer and runs on AMD64
> Linux automatically on exit already.
>
> +static int do_checkleak(int argc, char *argv[])
> +{
> + unsigned int count;
> + int opt;
> +
> + while((opt = getopt(argc, argv, "l:")) > 0) {
> + switch(opt) {
> + case 'l':
> + if (kstrtouint(optarg, 0, &count))
> + return COMMAND_ERROR;
> + (void)malloc(count);
> + break;
> + default:
> + return COMMAND_ERROR_USAGE;
> + }
> + }
> +
> + argv += optind;
> + argc -= optind;
> +
> + if (argc)
> + return COMMAND_ERROR_USAGE;
> +
> + memleak_check();
barebox exits in this call. Is this intended?
Sascha
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