PR26741, benign use after free in riscv_parse_prefixed_ext

Alan Modra amodra@gmail.com
Mon Jan 4 00:40:47 GMT 2021


ISO/IEC 9899:1999 C standard "J.2 Undefined behavior" says the
following is undefined behaviour:

"The value of a pointer that refers to space deallocated by a call to
the free or realloc function is used (7.20.3)."

	PR 26741
	* elfxx-riscv.c (riscv_parse_prefixed_ext): Free subset after
	calculating subset version length.

diff --git a/bfd/elfxx-riscv.c b/bfd/elfxx-riscv.c
index 9d7f606995..101e27f820 100644
--- a/bfd/elfxx-riscv.c
+++ b/bfd/elfxx-riscv.c
@@ -1572,8 +1572,8 @@ riscv_parse_prefixed_ext (riscv_parse_subset_t *rps,
       riscv_parse_add_subset (rps, subset,
 			      major_version,
 			      minor_version, FALSE);
-      free (subset);
       p += end_of_version - subset;
+      free (subset);
 
       if (*p != '\0' && *p != '_')
 	{

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM


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