Re: [PATCH v2] modpost: prevent leak when early return no suffix .o in read_symbols()

[Nathan Chancellor]

On Wed, 24 Jun 2026 11:47:42 +0700, Robertus Diawan Chris <robertusdchris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The allocation for elf info symsearch and hdr from parse_elf() haven't
> been released when return because of modname didn't have suffix ".o".
> And it seems like the suffix ".o" check did not depends on parse_elf()
> to succeed first. So, move the suffix ".o" check before checking
> parse_elf() result to prevent resource leak when the modname didn't have
> suffix ".o" and return early.
> 
> [...]

Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Cheers,
Nathan