linux-kernel - [GIT pull] objtool fix for 4.14

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Date:   Sun, 22 Oct 2017 12:11:18 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: [GIT pull] objtool fix for 4.14

Linus,

please pull the latest core-urgent-for-linus git tree from:

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git core-urgent-for-linus

Plug a memory leak in the instruction decoder.

Thanks,

	tglx

------------------>
Kamalesh Babulal (1):
      objtool: Fix memory leak in decode_instructions()


 tools/objtool/check.c | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/objtool/check.c b/tools/objtool/check.c
index a0c518ecf085..c0e26ad1fa7e 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/check.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/check.c
@@ -267,12 +267,13 @@ static int decode_instructions(struct objtool_file *file)
 						      &insn->immediate,
 						      &insn->stack_op);
 			if (ret)
-				return ret;
+				goto err;
 
 			if (!insn->type || insn->type > INSN_LAST) {
 				WARN_FUNC("invalid instruction type %d",
 					  insn->sec, insn->offset, insn->type);
-				return -1;
+				ret = -1;
+				goto err;
 			}
 
 			hash_add(file->insn_hash, &insn->hash, insn->offset);
@@ -296,6 +297,10 @@ static int decode_instructions(struct objtool_file *file)
 	}
 
 	return 0;
+
+err:
+	free(insn);
+	return ret;
 }
 
 /*