[PATCH] Fix stdio memory leaks with _REENT_SMALL + _LITE_EXIT

Volodymyr Medvid vmedvid@riseup.net
Tue Apr 12 13:23:13 GMT 2022


When a thread calls stdio functions (say, printf) and then dies,
_reclaim_reent() runs cleanup_stdio() to free the file buffers
and descriptors created for this thread. This is causing multiple
memory leaks when newlib is configured with _REENT_SMALL
and _LITE_EXIT - this is the standard configuration for
newlib-nano provided with GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain.

1. While __sfp() allocates the FILE objects in GLOBAL_REENT glue chain,
   stdio_cleanup walks through the thread-specific glue chain
   to run the cleanup_func. Therefore, the FILE objects are never
   freed. This leaks ~428 bytes per thread (glue_with_file + 3 x FILE).

   To fix this, update __sfp() to use the per-thread glue chain for
   stdio descriptors.

2. With _LITE_EXIT enabled, _fflush_r is used as cleanup_func
   instead of _fclose_r - as a result, the I/O buffer memory allocated
   by __smakebuf_r is never freed - this leaks another 1024 bytes.
   To fix this, update cleanup_stdio to always use _fclose_r.

This is a follow-up patch for https://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/newlib/current/017697.html
---
 newlib/libc/stdio/findfp.c | 9 ++-------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/newlib/libc/stdio/findfp.c b/newlib/libc/stdio/findfp.c
index 1370b63b8..2799980f3 100644
--- a/newlib/libc/stdio/findfp.c
+++ b/newlib/libc/stdio/findfp.c
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ __sfp (struct _reent *d)
 
   if (_GLOBAL_REENT->__cleanup == NULL)
     __sinit (_GLOBAL_REENT);
-  for (g = &_GLOBAL_REENT->__sglue;; g = g->_next)
+  for (g = &d->__sglue;; g = g->_next)
     {
       for (fp = g->_iobs, n = g->_niobs; --n >= 0; fp++)
 	if (fp->_flags == 0)
@@ -209,14 +209,9 @@ cleanup_stdio (struct _reent *ptr)
      the aforementioned systems. */
   cleanup_func = __sflushw_r;
 #else
-  /* Otherwise close files and flush read streams, too.
-     Note we call flush directly if "--enable-lite-exit" is in effect.  */
-#ifdef _LITE_EXIT
-  cleanup_func = _fflush_r;
-#else
+  /* Otherwise close files and flush read streams, too. */
   cleanup_func = _fclose_r;
 #endif
-#endif
 #ifdef _REENT_GLOBAL_STDIO_STREAMS
   if (ptr->_stdin != &__sf[0])
     (*cleanup_func) (ptr, ptr->_stdin);
-- 
2.25.1



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