Synthetic symbol leak in elf_read_minimal_symbols
authorAlex Lindsay <alexlindsay239@gmail.com>
Thu, 17 Aug 2017 10:53:53 +0000 (11:53 +0100)
committerYao Qi <yao.qi@linaro.org>
Thu, 17 Aug 2017 10:53:53 +0000 (11:53 +0100)
commitba7139188c75a9c620cadea59158c5ffcab28acf
tree8c15c3f7a0102dd8bd4c0983fed6993a40db83d8
parent44d0fb3a0a47c00a296f52a045a47dd0f1ccb810
Synthetic symbol leak in elf_read_minimal_symbols

Detected this leak with valgrind memcheck:

==30840== 194 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 9,138 of 10,922
==30840==    at 0x4C2DB8F: malloc (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
==30840==    by 0x80DF82: bfd_malloc (libbfd.c:193)
==30840==    by 0x80E12D: bfd_zmalloc (libbfd.c:278)
==30840==    by 0x819E80: elf_x86_64_get_synthetic_symtab (elf64-x86-64.c:6835)
==30840==    by 0x4F7B01: elf_read_minimal_symbols(objfile*, int, elfinfo const*) (elfread.c:1124)
==30840==    by 0x4F7CE7: elf_symfile_read(objfile*, enum_flags<symfile_add_flag>) (elfread.c:1182)
==30840==    by 0x7557FC: read_symbols(objfile*, enum_flags<symfile_add_flag>) (symfile.c:861)
==30840==    by 0x755EE1: syms_from_objfile_1(objfile*, section_addr_info*, enum_flags<symfile_add_flag>) (symfile.c:1062)

We perform a dynamic allocation in
elf64-x86-64.c:elf_x86_64_get_synthetic_symtab

  s = *ret = (asymbol *) bfd_zmalloc (size);

that appear to never get freed.

gdb:

2017-08-17  Alex Lindsay  <alexlindsay239@gmail.com>

* elfread.c (elf_read_minimal_symbols): xfree synthsyms.
gdb/ChangeLog
gdb/elfread.c
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