Bug 205956

Summary:	Potential memory leak in cg_merge.c
Product:	[Developer tools] valgrind	Reporter:	Rémi Duraffort <ivoire>
Component:	cachegrind	Assignee:	Nicholas Nethercote <njn>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal	CC:	florian
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	Patch to solve the issue

Description Rémi Duraffort 2009-09-02 09:53:58 UTC

Version:           svn (using Devel)
Compiler:          gcc 4.3.2 
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled sources

In cachegrind/cg_merge.c the functions dopy_FileFn, new_Counts and new_Counts_Zeroed can leak memory if malloc function failed.

Comment 1 Rémi Duraffort 2009-09-02 09:55:22 UTC

Created attachment 36624 [details]
Patch to solve the issue

Comment 2 Florian Krohm 2014-11-17 22:00:40 UTC

When cg_merge runs out of memory it will terminate the process. In that case memory leaks are not important to fix and we don't bother with them.