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-rw-r--r--gdb/ChangeLog6
-rw-r--r--gdb/completer.c2
-rw-r--r--gdb/parse.c6
3 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index c8d4039..faf0053 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2008-11-24 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
+
+ Fix access of an already freed memory.
+ * parse.c (parse_field_expression): Call xstrdup on `*name'.
+ * completer.c (expression_completer): Free fieldname.
+
2008-11-24 Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
PR gdb/2474
diff --git a/gdb/completer.c b/gdb/completer.c
index e7ee817..d109140 100644
--- a/gdb/completer.c
+++ b/gdb/completer.c
@@ -414,9 +414,11 @@ expression_completer (char *text, char *word)
add_struct_fields (type, &out, result, fieldname, flen);
result[out] = NULL;
+ xfree (fieldname);
return result;
}
}
+ xfree (fieldname);
/* Commands which complete on locations want to see the entire
argument. */
diff --git a/gdb/parse.c b/gdb/parse.c
index 6200e81..3575306 100644
--- a/gdb/parse.c
+++ b/gdb/parse.c
@@ -1090,7 +1090,8 @@ parse_expression (char *string)
/* Parse STRING as an expression. If parsing ends in the middle of a
field reference, return the type of the left-hand-side of the
reference; furthermore, if the parsing ends in the field name,
- return the field name in *NAME. In all other cases, return NULL. */
+ return the field name in *NAME. In all other cases, return NULL.
+ Returned non-NULL *NAME must be freed by the caller. */
struct type *
parse_field_expression (char *string, char **name)
@@ -1120,6 +1121,9 @@ parse_field_expression (char *string, char **name)
xfree (exp);
return NULL;
}
+ /* (*NAME) is a part of the EXP memory block freed below. */
+ *name = xstrdup (*name);
+
val = evaluate_subexpression_type (exp, subexp);
xfree (exp);