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Masahiro Yamada be2fa44b51 genksyms: fix memory leak when the same symbol is read from *.symref file
When a symbol that is already registered is read again from *.symref
file, __add_symbol() removes the previous one from the hash table without
freeing it.

[Test Case]

  $ cat foo.c
  #include <linux/export.h>
  void foo(void);
  void foo(void) {}
  EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo);

  $ cat foo.symref
  foo void foo ( void )
  foo void foo ( void )

When a symbol is removed from the hash table, it must be freed along
with its ->name and ->defn members. However, sym->name cannot be freed
because it is sometimes shared with node->string, but not always. If
sym->name and node->string share the same memory, free(sym->name) could
lead to a double-free bug.

To resolve this issue, always assign a strdup'ed string to sym->name.

Fixes: 64e6c1e123 ("genksyms: track symbol checksum changes")
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
2025-01-10 23:01:22 +09:00
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