objcopy: bfd_alloc orelocation

Alan Modra amodra@gmail.com
Mon Jul 4 13:22:57 GMT 2022


This fixes an inconsequential objcopy memory leak.  I'd normally
ignore reports of leaks like this one, that are merely one block or
fewer per section processed, since objcopy soon exits and frees all
memory.  However I thought it worth providing support for allocating
memory on a bfd objalloc in objcopy and other utils.

	PR 29233
	* bucomm.c (bfd_xalloc): New function.
	* bucomm.h (bfd_xalloc): Declare.
	* objcopy.c (copy_relocations_in_section): Use it to allocate
	array of reloc pointers.  Rewrite code stripping relocs to do
	without extra memory allocation.

diff --git a/binutils/bucomm.c b/binutils/bucomm.c
index 4395cb9f7f5..58341905587 100644
--- a/binutils/bucomm.c
+++ b/binutils/bucomm.c
@@ -142,6 +142,19 @@ non_fatal (const char *format, ...)
   va_end (args);
 }
 
+/* Like xmalloc except that ABFD's objalloc memory is returned.
+   Use objalloc_free_block to free this memory and all more recently
+   allocated, or more usually, leave it to bfd_close to free.  */
+
+void *
+bfd_xalloc (bfd *abfd, size_t size)
+{
+  void *ret = bfd_alloc (abfd, size);
+  if (ret == NULL)
+    bfd_fatal (NULL);
+  return ret;
+}
+
 /* Set the default BFD target based on the configured target.  Doing
    this permits the binutils to be configured for a particular target,
    and linked against a shared BFD library which was configured for a
diff --git a/binutils/bucomm.h b/binutils/bucomm.h
index 48b2c50aced..a1814cbbcc2 100644
--- a/binutils/bucomm.h
+++ b/binutils/bucomm.h
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ void fatal (const char *, ...) ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF_1 ATTRIBUTE_NORETURN;
 
 void non_fatal (const char *, ...) ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF_1;
 
+void *bfd_xalloc (bfd *, size_t);
+
 void set_default_bfd_target (void);
 
 void list_matching_formats (char **);
diff --git a/binutils/objcopy.c b/binutils/objcopy.c
index df87712df98..37435733d76 100644
--- a/binutils/objcopy.c
+++ b/binutils/objcopy.c
@@ -4336,14 +4336,13 @@ copy_relocations_in_section (bfd *ibfd, sec_ptr isection, void *obfdarg)
 	}
       else
 	{
-	  relpp = (arelent **) xmalloc (relsize);
+	  relpp = bfd_xalloc (obfd, relsize);
 	  relcount = bfd_canonicalize_reloc (ibfd, isection, relpp, isympp);
 	  if (relcount < 0)
 	    {
 	      status = 1;
 	      bfd_nonfatal_message (NULL, ibfd, isection,
 				    _("relocation count is negative"));
-	      free (relpp);
 	      return;
 	    }
 	}
@@ -4352,34 +4351,24 @@ copy_relocations_in_section (bfd *ibfd, sec_ptr isection, void *obfdarg)
 	{
 	  /* Remove relocations which are not in
 	     keep_strip_specific_list.  */
-	  arelent **temp_relpp;
-	  long temp_relcount = 0;
+	  arelent **w_relpp;
 	  long i;
 
-	  temp_relpp = (arelent **) xmalloc (relsize);
-	  for (i = 0; i < relcount; i++)
-	    {
-	      /* PR 17512: file: 9e907e0c.  */
-	      if (relpp[i]->sym_ptr_ptr
-		  /* PR 20096 */
-		  && * relpp[i]->sym_ptr_ptr)
-		if (is_specified_symbol (bfd_asymbol_name (*relpp[i]->sym_ptr_ptr),
-					 keep_specific_htab))
-		  temp_relpp [temp_relcount++] = relpp [i];
-	    }
-	  relcount = temp_relcount;
-	  if (relpp != isection->orelocation)
-	    free (relpp);
-	  relpp = temp_relpp;
+	  for (w_relpp = relpp, i = 0; i < relcount; i++)
+	    /* PR 17512: file: 9e907e0c.  */
+	    if (relpp[i]->sym_ptr_ptr
+		/* PR 20096 */
+		&& *relpp[i]->sym_ptr_ptr
+		&& is_specified_symbol (bfd_asymbol_name (*relpp[i]->sym_ptr_ptr),
+					keep_specific_htab))
+	      *w_relpp++ = relpp[i];
+	  relcount = w_relpp - relpp;
+	  *w_relpp = 0;
 	}
 
       bfd_set_reloc (obfd, osection, relcount == 0 ? NULL : relpp, relcount);
       if (relcount == 0)
-	{
-	  osection->flags &= ~SEC_RELOC;
-	  if (relpp != isection->orelocation)
-	    free (relpp);
-	}
+	osection->flags &= ~SEC_RELOC;
     }
 }
 

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM


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