Commit: Fix memory leak in ar

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Tue Aug 4 13:50:00 GMT 2015


Hi Guys,

  I am checking in the patch below to close a small memory leak in ar,
  should it encounter an invalid patch whilst extracting files.

Cheers
  Nick

binutils/ChangeLog
2015-08-04  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>

	* ar.c (extract_file): Free cbuf if the path is invalid.

diff --git a/binutils/ar.c b/binutils/ar.c
index 94c79e2..2765dcc 100644
--- a/binutils/ar.c
+++ b/binutils/ar.c
@@ -1041,6 +1041,7 @@ extract_file (bfd *abfd)
     {
       non_fatal (_("illegal pathname found in archive member: %s"),
 		 bfd_get_filename (abfd));
+      free (cbuf);
       return;
     }
 



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