Extract from "man realloc": "If realloc() fails the original block is left untouched; it is not freed or moved."
Fix a possible memory leak (reported by cppcheck). Cc: Riku Voipio <riku.voi...@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <w...@mail.berlios.de> --- linux-user/elfload.c | 8 +++++--- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/linux-user/elfload.c b/linux-user/elfload.c index ab03e16..f9bd849 100644 --- a/linux-user/elfload.c +++ b/linux-user/elfload.c @@ -1474,7 +1474,7 @@ static void load_symbols(struct elfhdr *hdr, int fd, abi_ulong load_bias) struct elf_shdr *shdr; char *strings; struct syminfo *s; - struct elf_sym *syms; + struct elf_sym *syms, *new_syms; shnum = hdr->e_shnum; i = shnum * sizeof(struct elf_shdr); @@ -1543,12 +1543,14 @@ static void load_symbols(struct elfhdr *hdr, int fd, abi_ulong load_bias) that we threw away. Whether or not this has any effect on the memory allocation depends on the malloc implementation and how many symbols we managed to discard. */ - syms = realloc(syms, nsyms * sizeof(*syms)); - if (syms == NULL) { + new_syms = realloc(syms, nsyms * sizeof(*syms)); + if (new_syms == NULL) { free(s); + free(syms); free(strings); return; } + syms = new_syms; qsort(syms, nsyms, sizeof(*syms), symcmp); -- 1.7.2.3