[U-Boot] [PATCH] tools/proftool: fix use-after-free

Vincent Stehlé vincent.stehle at freescale.com
Wed Oct 7 15:48:48 CEST 2015


The read_trace_config() can dereference the line pointer after freeing
it on its error path. Avoid that.

This was found by Coverity Scan.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Stehlé <vincent.stehle at freescale.com>
Cc: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
---
 tools/proftool.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/proftool.c b/tools/proftool.c
index 9ce7a77..ddf870f 100644
--- a/tools/proftool.c
+++ b/tools/proftool.c
@@ -432,9 +432,10 @@ static int read_trace_config(FILE *fin)
 
 		err = regcomp(&line->regex, tok, REG_NOSUB);
 		if (err) {
+			int r = regex_report_error(&line->regex, err,
+						   "compile", tok);
 			free(line);
-			return regex_report_error(&line->regex, err, "compile",
-						  tok);
+			return r;
 		}
 
 		/* link this new one to the end of the list */
-- 
2.5.3



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