Re: [v3] tools/bootconfig: fix resource leak in apply_xbc()

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Fri May 08 2020 - 10:46:20 EST


On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 09:00:53AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 8 May 2020 19:42:56 +0800
> Yunfeng Ye <yeyunfeng@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On 2020/5/8 19:30, Markus Elfring wrote:
> > >> this change can fix the warning of tools.
> > >
> > > Would you like to point any specific source code analysis tools out
> > > for this issue?
> > > (Can a corresponding attribution become relevant for a clearer
> > > change description?)
> > >
> > The tools we used is not for open source. it point out some error description like
> > "Memory leak: data" and "Resource leak: fd" in tools/bootconfig/main.c.
> >
> > Can I only description:
> > "Memory and resource leak is found by a static code analysis tools" ? thanks.
>
> Markus please stop! Your suggestions are just your preferences that are not
> required for the kernel.
>
> Yunfeng, your v2 was fine and has already landed in Linus's tree. Feel free
> to ignore Markus's suggestions in the future.

There was actually a bug in v2. It exits with a non-zero instead of
zero on success so it will mess up people's scripts.

regards,
dan carpenter