From c2f5dc30afa34696f2da0081c4ac50b958ecb0e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2018 23:39:42 +1030
Subject: [PATCH] PR23952, memory leak in _bfd_generic_read_minisymbols

bfd/
	PR 23952
	* syms.c (_bfd_generic_read_minisymbols): Free syms before
	returning with zero symcount.
binutils/
	* nm.c (display_rel_file): Use xrealloc to increase minisyms
	for synthetic symbols.
url:https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=c2f5dc30afa34696f2da0081c4ac50b958ecb0e9
diff --git a/bfd/syms.c b/bfd/syms.c
index e09640ab74..cbf85cb16d 100644
--- a/bfd/syms.c
+++ b/bfd/syms.c
@@ -822,9 +822,16 @@ _bfd_generic_read_minisymbols (bfd *abfd,
   if (symcount < 0)
     goto error_return;
 
-  *minisymsp = syms;
-  *sizep = sizeof (asymbol *);
-
+  if (symcount == 0)
+    /* We return 0 above when storage is 0.  Exit in the same state
+       here, so as to not complicate callers with having to deal with
+       freeing memory for zero symcount.  */
+    free (syms);
+  else
+    {
+      *minisymsp = syms;
+      *sizep = sizeof (asymbol *);
+    }
   return symcount;
 
  error_return:
diff --git a/binutils/nm.c b/binutils/nm.c
index 8807832f97..39083c3f4e 100644
--- a/binutils/nm.c
+++ b/binutils/nm.c
@@ -1175,17 +1175,14 @@ display_rel_file (bfd *abfd, bfd *archive_bfd)
       if (synth_count > 0)
 	{
 	  asymbol **symp;
-	  void *new_mini;
 	  long i;
 
-	  new_mini = xmalloc ((symcount + synth_count + 1) * sizeof (*symp));
-	  symp = (asymbol **) new_mini;
-	  memcpy (symp, minisyms, symcount * sizeof (*symp));
-	  symp += symcount;
+	  minisyms = xrealloc (minisyms,
+			       (symcount + synth_count + 1) * sizeof (*symp));
+	  symp = (asymbol **) minisyms + symcount;
 	  for (i = 0; i < synth_count; i++)
 	    *symp++ = synthsyms + i;
 	  *symp = 0;
-	  minisyms = new_mini;
 	  symcount += synth_count;
 	}
     }
-- 
2.19.1