From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
To: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] objtool: orc_gen: Fix memory leak in create_orc_entry
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 12:28:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <88631822-874a-2c26-6661-5ee12c4f72eb@embeddedor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200427144439.rrywv56mjfypupgh@treble>
Hi Josh,
On 4/27/20 09:44, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 08:35:33AM -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
>> In case memory resources for rela were allocated, release them before
>> return.
>>
>> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1462331 ("Resource leak")
>> Fixes: e81e07244325 ("objtool: Support Clang non-section symbols in ORC generation")
>> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
>
> Hi Gustavo,
>
> For performance reasons, our policy is to allow memory leaks in error
> and exit paths. So you may want to turn off Coverity resource leak
> checking for objtool.
>
Got it. That's good to know.
Thank you.
--
Gustavo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-27 17:24 UTC|newest]
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2020-04-27 13:35 Gustavo A. R. Silva
2020-04-27 14:44 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-27 17:28 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]
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