On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 10:00 AM Stanislav Goriainov
<goriainov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> When the function check_msg() is called, memory for str is allocated
> via xasprintf() and xasprintf_append() (as well as for file_str),
> but is not freed anywhere later (although file_str is).
>
> Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
>
> Fixes: c2e7075ca830 ("scripts/dtc: Update to upstream version v1.4.7-57-gf267e674d145")
scripts/dtc/ is sync'ed periodically with upstream dtc. We don't take
patches against it. You must submit this to upstream dtc.
> Signed-off-by: Stanislav Goriainov <goriainov@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> scripts/dtc/checks.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/dtc/checks.c b/scripts/dtc/checks.c
> index 781ba1129a8e..92ffc8de6a52 100644
> --- a/scripts/dtc/checks.c
> +++ b/scripts/dtc/checks.c
> @@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ static inline void PRINTF(5, 6) check_msg(struct check *c, struct dt_info *dti,
> }
>
> fputs(str, stderr);
> + free(str);
> }
>
> #define FAIL(c, dti, node, ...) \
> -- 2.34.1
>
