Em Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 12:58:07PM -0700, Tavis Ormandy escreveu:
> Hello, I have a fun project that I'm trying to use libdwarves with,
> but had a couple of questions.
>
> I'm using the "steal" callback interface to search for a specific cu.
> If the cu matches the one I was looking for, I process it and then
> return LSK__STOP_LOADING to abort processing this file. If it's not
> the cu I wanted, I just return LSK__DELETE.
>
> This seems to do what I want, but leaks memory.
>
> 1) LSK__DELETE doesn't seem to clean up the dwarf_cu obstack, I think
> this wasn't intended.
> 2) If die__process_and_recode() fails in finalize_cu_immediately(),
> the cu is leaked. This one is definitely a bug :)
>
> I'm not 100% sure if I'm using LSK__STOP_LOADING correctly. It doesn't
> cleanup the cu like LSK__DELETE does, and it doesn't call cus__add()
> like LSK__KEEPIT does, so was the stealer supposed to clean it up?
>
> If so, how do I clean up the dcu? I think I can pull it out of
> cu->priv, but I think you didn't intend to expose that to callbacks?
>
> The patch I'm using is below.
At first sight it is ok, i.e. it seems to fix the problem, but I think
the right place to do the free will be at:
cu__delete()
cu->dfops->cu__delete(cu);
Which for DWARF, maps to... nothing, I'll continue looking at this
tomorrow, its been a while I haven't touched this code :-\
> Thanks for libdwarves, it's a really great library!
Glad you liked it!
> Tavis.
>
> diff --git a/src/struct/dwarf_loader.c b/src/struct/dwarf_loader.c
> index 163cb51..ba715a9 100644
> --- a/src/struct/dwarf_loader.c
> +++ b/src/struct/dwarf_loader.c
> @@ -2169,9 +2169,12 @@ static int finalize_cu_immediately(struct cus
> *cus, struct cu *cu,
> int lsk = finalize_cu(cus, cu, dcu, conf);
> switch (lsk) {
> case LSK__DELETE:
> + obstack_free(&dcu->obstack, NULL);
> cu__delete(cu);
> break;
> case LSK__STOP_LOADING:
> + obstack_free(&dcu->obstack, NULL);
> + cu__delete(cu);
> break;
> case LSK__KEEPIT:
> if (!cu->extra_dbg_info)
> @@ -2304,8 +2307,11 @@ static int cus__load_module(struct cus *cus,
> struct conf_load *conf,
> cu->priv = &dcu;
> cu->dfops = &dwarf__ops;
>
> - if (die__process_and_recode(cu_die, cu) != 0)
> + if (die__process_and_recode(cu_die, cu) != 0) {
> + obstack_free(&dcu.obstack, NULL);
> + cu__delete(cu);
> return DWARF_CB_ABORT;
> + }
>
> if (finalize_cu_immediately(cus, cu, &dcu, conf)
> == LSK__STOP_LOADING)
> --
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