cppcheck reports "Mismatching allocation and deallocation". To make cppcheck check qconf.cc, you need to ensure qconf.moc is not remaining. $ rm -f scripts/kconfig/qconf.moc $ cppcheck scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc Checking scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc ... scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc:1242:10: error: Mismatching allocation and deallocation: data [mismatchAllocDealloc] delete data; ^ scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc:1236:15: note: Mismatching allocation and deallocation: data char *data = new char[count + 1]; ^ scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc:1242:10: note: Mismatching allocation and deallocation: data delete data; ^ scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc:1255:10: error: Mismatching allocation and deallocation: data [mismatchAllocDealloc] delete data; ^ scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc:1236:15: note: Mismatching allocation and deallocation: data char *data = new char[count + 1]; ^ scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc:1255:10: note: Mismatching allocation and deallocation: data delete data; ^ Fixes: c4f7398bee9c ("kconfig: qconf: make debug links work again") Reported-by: David Binderman <dcb314@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc b/scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc index 4a616128a154..5a9e83a2f8c2 100644 --- a/scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc +++ b/scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc @@ -1239,7 +1239,7 @@ void ConfigInfoView::clicked(const QUrl &url) if (count < 1) { qInfo() << "Clicked link is empty"; - delete data; + delete[] data; return; } @@ -1252,7 +1252,7 @@ void ConfigInfoView::clicked(const QUrl &url) result = sym_re_search(data); if (!result) { qInfo() << "Clicked symbol is invalid:" << data; - delete data; + delete[] data; return; } -- 2.25.1