We pass the wrong address to free in case of an error occured in preceding while-read loop if the loop is executed more than once. Fix this by use the outbuf which stores the original malloc'ed address. Signed-off-by: Marco Felsch <m.felsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/common.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/common.c b/scripts/common.c index 0599cd41ff..49c468a1ea 100644 --- a/scripts/common.c +++ b/scripts/common.c @@ -76,8 +76,8 @@ int read_file_2(const char *filename, size_t *size, void **outbuf, size_t max_si ret = 0; goto close; free: + free(*outbuf); *outbuf = NULL; - free(buf); close: close(fd); return ret; -- 2.41.0
