On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 10:59:28AM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote: > > Generally speaking, it > > seems impossible to UNLEAK when dying, since we don't know what we have > > allocated higher up in the call-stack. > > I do not understand; I thought UNLEAK was specifically for the purpose of > die() calls without imposing extra overhead; rereading 0e5bba53af > (add UNLEAK annotation for reducing leak false positives, 2017-09-08) > doesn't provide an example for prematurely die()ing, only for regular > program exit. I responded elsewhere, but as the author of UNLEAK, let me comment here: it was intended only for program exit. That's why there are no such examples. :) If you're using it anywhere except the return from a cmd_* function, or a static-local helper that's called from a cmd_*, you should probably actually be freeing the memory. -Peff
