[PATCH 12/13] kexec: x86_64: elf: fix memory leak caused by get_command_line
Zhang Yanfei
zhangyanfei.yes at gmail.com
Mon Mar 25 11:17:29 EDT 2013
From: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei at cn.fujitsu.com>
Since get_command_line returns dynamically allocated memory, it is
easy for the caller to forget freeing the memory. Here fixes a
memory leak caused by this function.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei at cn.fujitsu.com>
---
kexec/arch/x86_64/kexec-elf-x86_64.c | 7 +++++--
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kexec/arch/x86_64/kexec-elf-x86_64.c b/kexec/arch/x86_64/kexec-elf-x86_64.c
index a3fc728..4a41780 100644
--- a/kexec/arch/x86_64/kexec-elf-x86_64.c
+++ b/kexec/arch/x86_64/kexec-elf-x86_64.c
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ int elf_x86_64_load(int argc, char **argv, const char *buf, off_t len,
struct mem_ehdr ehdr;
const char *append = NULL;
char *command_line = NULL, *modified_cmdline;
+ char *tmp_cmdline = NULL;
int command_line_len;
const char *ramdisk;
unsigned long entry, max_addr;
@@ -135,7 +136,7 @@ int elf_x86_64_load(int argc, char **argv, const char *buf, off_t len,
append = optarg;
break;
case OPT_REUSE_CMDLINE:
- command_line = get_command_line();
+ tmp_cmdline = get_command_line();
break;
case OPT_RAMDISK:
ramdisk = optarg;
@@ -155,7 +156,9 @@ int elf_x86_64_load(int argc, char **argv, const char *buf, off_t len,
break;
}
}
- command_line = concat_cmdline(command_line, append);
+ command_line = concat_cmdline(tmp_cmdline, append);
+ if (tmp_cmdline)
+ free(tmp_cmdline);
command_line_len = 0;
if (command_line) {
command_line_len = strlen(command_line) +1;
--
1.7.1
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