When running coverity on dtc source code the following error is reported. ========================================================================== *** CID 1370967: Resource leaks (RESOURCE_LEAK) /tools/dtc/livetree.c: 850 in add_fixup_entry() 844 if (strchr(node->fullpath, ':') || strchr(prop->name, ':')) 845 die("arguments should not contain ':'\n"); 846 847 xasprintf(&entry, "%s:%s:%u", 848 node->fullpath, prop->name, m->offset); 849 append_to_property(fn, m->ref, entry, strlen(entry) + 1); >>> CID 1370967: Resource leaks (RESOURCE_LEAK) >>> Variable "entry" going out of scope leaks the storage it points to. 850 } ========================================================================== Fix the leak. Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe Dubois <jcd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- livetree.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/livetree.c b/livetree.c index afa2f67..994b6c2 100644 --- a/livetree.c +++ b/livetree.c @@ -847,6 +847,8 @@ static void add_fixup_entry(struct dt_info *dti, struct node *fn, xasprintf(&entry, "%s:%s:%u", node->fullpath, prop->name, m->offset); append_to_property(fn, m->ref, entry, strlen(entry) + 1); + + free(entry); } static void generate_fixups_tree_internal(struct dt_info *dti, -- 2.9.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree-compiler" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html