From: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Since get_command_line returns dynamically allocated memory, it is easy for the caller to forget freeing the memory. Here fixes a memory leak caused by this function. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei at cn.fujitsu.com> --- kexec/arch/i386/kexec-elf-x86.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kexec/arch/i386/kexec-elf-x86.c b/kexec/arch/i386/kexec-elf-x86.c index de855c4..94571ca 100644 --- a/kexec/arch/i386/kexec-elf-x86.c +++ b/kexec/arch/i386/kexec-elf-x86.c @@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ int elf_x86_load(int argc, char **argv, const char *buf, off_t len, struct mem_ehdr ehdr; char *command_line = NULL, *modified_cmdline = NULL; const char *append = NULL; + char *tmp_cmdline = NULL; char *error_msg = NULL; int result; int command_line_len; @@ -139,7 +140,7 @@ int elf_x86_load(int argc, char **argv, const char *buf, off_t len, append = optarg; break; case OPT_REUSE_CMDLINE: - command_line = get_command_line(); + tmp_cmdline = get_command_line(); break; case OPT_RAMDISK: ramdisk = optarg; @@ -159,7 +160,10 @@ int elf_x86_load(int argc, char **argv, const char *buf, off_t len, break; } } - command_line = concat_cmdline(command_line, append); + command_line = concat_cmdline(tmp_cmdline, append); + if (tmp_cmdline) { + free(tmp_cmdline); + } command_line_len = 0; if (command_line) { command_line_len = strlen(command_line) +1; -- 1.7.1