[Bug gas/29256] New: A Potential Memory Leak Bug

[1157401338 at qq dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29256

            Bug ID: 29256
           Summary: A Potential Memory Leak Bug
           Product: binutils
           Version: 2.34
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: gas
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: 1157401338 at qq dot com
  Target Milestone: ---

Created attachment 14148
  --> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=14148&action=edit
diagram of memory leak bug

Hi, I found a potential memory leak bug in the project source code of binutils,
I have shown the execution sequence of the program that may generate the bug on
a diagram which is added to the attachment.
The text in red illustrates the steps that generate the bug
The red arrows represent call relationships
The green text illustrates the files and functions whose code snippets are
located below the green text.
The purple text is the annotation of the step that caused the bug

In short, the key to the bug is the fifth step in the diagram. The return value
of the function called in step 5 points to dynamically allocated memory, and
after that call, the return value of the function obj_elf_section_name is not
passed further to the caller of function obj_elf_section, and no free operation
is performed, thus a memory leak occurs.
It is worth noting that although the second and third steps in the diagram show
that name is a dynamically allocated memory, other defined sites of name are
also dynamically allocated memory, for example, line 975 of the code fragment
where the second step in the diagram is located calls the function xmemdup0,
which also uses xmalloc to dynamically allocate memory and passing the return
value to name


I look forward to your reply and thank you very much for your patience

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