Coverity Reported a Leak in libdwarf

Summary

Coverity Scan reports a resource leak.

** CID 1595466: Resource leaks (RESOURCE_LEAK) /rtemstoolkit/elftoolchain/libdwarf/dwarf_abbrev.c: 51 in dwarf_get_abbrev()

Details

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*** CID 1595466:  Resource leaks  (RESOURCE_LEAK)
/rtemstoolkit/elftoolchain/libdwarf/dwarf_abbrev.c: 51 in dwarf_get_abbrev()
45      ret = _dwarf_abbrev_parse(dbg, NULL, &offset, &ab, error);
46      if (ret != DW_DLE_NONE) {
47              if (ret == DW_DLE_NO_ENTRY) {
48                      DWARF_SET_ERROR(dbg, error, DW_DLE_NO_ENTRY);
49                      return (DW_DLV_NO_ENTRY);
50              } else
>>>     CID 1595466:  Resource leaks  (RESOURCE_LEAK)
>>>     Variable "ab" going out of scope leaks the storage it points to.
51                      return (DW_DLV_ERROR);
52      }
53     
54      *return_abbrev = ab;
55      *length = ab->ab_length;
56      *attr_count = ab->ab_atnum;