* _bfd_elf_munmap_section_contents
@ 2025-01-17 9:35 Alan Modra
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From: Alan Modra @ 2025-01-17 9:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: binutils
Do unmap/free cached contents to avoid some memory leaks we'd
otherwise see.
I'll wait until after the branch for this one too.
* elf.c (_bfd_elf_munmap_section_contents): Clear pointers to
contents that we unmap/free rather than not unmapping/freeing.
diff --git a/bfd/elf.c b/bfd/elf.c
index 1f2b82bfe92..1aecb4786a2 100644
--- a/bfd/elf.c
+++ b/bfd/elf.c
@@ -14270,15 +14270,15 @@ _bfd_elf_munmap_section_contents (asection *sec ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED,
if (contents == NULL)
return;
+ /* Don't leave pointers to data we are about to munmap or free. */
+ if (sec->contents == contents)
+ sec->contents = NULL;
+ if (elf_section_data (sec)->this_hdr.contents == contents)
+ elf_section_data (sec)->this_hdr.contents = NULL;
+
#ifdef USE_MMAP
if (sec->mmapped_p)
{
- /* _bfd_elf_mmap_section_contents may return the previously
- mapped section contents. Munmap the section contents only
- if they haven't been cached. */
- if (elf_section_data (sec)->this_hdr.contents == contents)
- return;
-
/* When _bfd_elf_mmap_section_contents returns CONTENTS as
malloced, CONTENTS_ADDR is set to NULL. */
if (elf_section_data (sec)->contents_addr != NULL)
@@ -14288,7 +14288,6 @@ _bfd_elf_munmap_section_contents (asection *sec ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED,
elf_section_data (sec)->contents_size) != 0)
abort ();
sec->mmapped_p = 0;
- sec->contents = NULL;
elf_section_data (sec)->contents_addr = NULL;
elf_section_data (sec)->contents_size = 0;
return;
--
Alan Modra
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