From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
To: "U-Boot Version 2 (barebox)" <barebox@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: possible memory leak in commands/nand.c?
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:33:11 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0912201429550.27643@localhost> (raw)
once again, perhaps i'm just misreading this but consider this code
from commands/nand.c, noting the two early calls to asprintf():
===== begin =====
bb = xzalloc(sizeof(*bb));
bb->devname = asprintf("/dev/%s", basename(path));
if (name)
bb->cdev.name = strdup(name);
else
bb->cdev.name = asprintf("%s.bb", basename(path));
ret = stat(bb->devname, &s);
if (ret)
goto free_out;
bb->raw_size = s.st_size;
bb->fd = open(bb->devname, O_RDWR);
if (bb->fd < 0) {
ret = -ENODEV;
goto free_out;
}
ret = ioctl(bb->fd, MEMGETINFO, &bb->info);
if (ret)
goto free_out;
nand_bb_calc_size(bb);
bb->cdev.ops = &nand_bb_ops;
bb->cdev.priv = bb;
devfs_create(&bb->cdev);
return 0;
free_out:
free(bb);
return ret;
===== end =====
if something in the latter part of that code fails and control jumps
to the label "free_out", won't this code fail to free() the memory
allocated in the two asprintf() calls? isn't the programmer
explicitly required to free memory allocated with asprintf() or
vasprintf() calls?
rday
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next reply other threads:[~2009-12-20 19:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-20 19:33 Robert P. J. Day [this message]
2009-12-21 8:45 ` Sascha Hauer
2009-12-21 9:17 ` Robert P. J. Day
2009-12-21 10:16 ` Sascha Hauer
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