RFA: Fix potential memory leak in gen-sframe.c
Project / Subsystem
binutils / binutils
Date
2026-07-28
Proposer
Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
Source type
public_inbox
Consensus
Proposed
Sentiment
—/10
Technical tradeoffs
- • Properly zeroing out pointers and counts after freeing memory adds a small overhead but significantly improves memory safety.
- • The fix addresses a specific error path, ensuring robustness in exception handling frame generation.
All attributes
- project
- binutils
- subsystem
- binutils
- patch_id
- —
- discussion_id
- 87pl073358.fsf@redhat.com
- source_type
- public_inbox
- title
- RFA: Fix potential memory leak in gen-sframe.c
- headline
- Fix potential memory leak in gen-sframe.c
- tldr
- Patch cleans up sframe_xlate_ctx structure to prevent a memory leak on signal frame errors.
- proposer
- Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
- consensus
- Proposed
- outcome
- proposed
- sentiment_score
- —
- technical_tradeoffs
-
- • Properly zeroing out pointers and counts after freeing memory adds a small overhead but significantly improves memory safety.
- • The fix addresses a specific error path, ensuring robustness in exception handling frame generation.
- series_id
- —
- series_role
- standalone
- series_parts
- []
- tags
-
- • binutils
- • gas
- • memory leak
- • dwarf
- • exception handling
- bugzilla_url
- —
- date
- 2026-07-28T00:00:00.000Z
RFA: Fix potential memory leak in gen-sframe.c
A patch proposes to fix a potential memory leak in gas/gen-sframe.c by ensuring that upon error during signal frame processing, the sframe_xlate_ctx structure is properly cleaned up. Specifically, it suggests zeroing out dangling pointers and resetting counts after freeing memory, preventing these stale values from being copied into the output SFrame FDE and potentially causing issues during section finalization.