From 0f511f3dda8c6fb2c799eab22acfb39056047a49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ulf Magnusson Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2017 19:35:44 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] kconfig: Fix automatic menu creation mem leak [ Upstream commit ae7440ef0c8013d68c00dad6900e7cce5311bb1c ] expr_trans_compare() always allocates and returns a new expression, giving the following leak outline: ... *Allocate* basedep = expr_trans_compare(basedep, E_UNEQUAL, &symbol_no); ... for (menu = parent->next; menu; menu = menu->next) { ... *Copy* dep2 = expr_copy(basedep); ... *Free copy* expr_free(dep2); } *basedep lost!* Fix by freeing 'basedep' after the loop. Summary from Valgrind on 'menuconfig' (ARCH=x86) before the fix: LEAK SUMMARY: definitely lost: 344,376 bytes in 14,349 blocks ... Summary after the fix: LEAK SUMMARY: definitely lost: 44,448 bytes in 1,852 blocks ... Signed-off-by: Ulf Magnusson Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- scripts/kconfig/menu.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/menu.c b/scripts/kconfig/menu.c index e9357931b47d..749c2bd5fc51 100644 --- a/scripts/kconfig/menu.c +++ b/scripts/kconfig/menu.c @@ -372,6 +372,7 @@ void menu_finalize(struct menu *parent) menu->parent = parent; last_menu = menu; } + expr_free(basedep); if (last_menu) { parent->list = parent->next; parent->next = last_menu->next; -- 2.20.1