[U-Boot] [U-Boot, v1, 4/4] env: fix memory leak in fw_env routines

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Fri Apr 14 21:09:27 UTC 2017


On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 06:08:03PM +0200, Stefano Babic wrote:

> fw_env_open allocates buffers to store the environment, but these
> buffers are never freed. This becomes quite nasty using the fw_ tools as
> library, because each access to the environment (even just reading a
> variable) generates a memory leak equal to the size of the environment.
> 
> Fix this renaming fw_env_close() as fw_env_flush(), because the function
> really flushes the environment from RAM to storage, and add a
> fw_env_close function to free the allocated resources.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefano Babic <sbabic at denx.de>

Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!

-- 
Tom
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