RFR: 8266187: Memory leak in appendBootClassPath()

Kevin Walls kevinw at openjdk.java.net
Fri Apr 30 10:20:49 UTC 2021


On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 06:38:57 GMT, Wang Huang <whuang at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Dear All, 
>     I find a memory leak in `appendBootClassPath()`
> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/75a2354dc276e107d64516d20fc72bc7ef3d5f86/src/java.instrument/share/native/libinstrument/InvocationAdapter.c#L950
> * we malloc `resolved` from resolve(parent, path)
> * we use `resolved` in line 951 
> * we don't free() this memory after using.
> 
> I think we can fix this bug by adding a free() after line 951 as my commit.
> Thank you for your review. Any suggestion is welcome.
> 
> Yours , 
> Wang Huang

Oops - please update the copyright year, thanks! (second year in the header is currently 2019, should become 2021).

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3751


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