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From: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: xfsprogs <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Cc: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH] xfsprogs: fix potential memory free issues in quota_group_type()
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 14:45:53 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1379832353.4089.10.camel@ThinkPad-T5421> (raw)

This patch tries to fix CID 997009 reported by Coverity scan, as 
suggested by sekharan

If getgroups() fails, gids might be malloced, and overwritten with &gid.
So the free() at the end of the function is trying to free a variable on
the stack, while the pointer to the allocated memory is lost. 

Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 quota/quota.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/quota/quota.c b/quota/quota.c
index 7e52ad2..ae9b156 100644
--- a/quota/quota.c
+++ b/quota/quota.c
@@ -292,7 +292,8 @@ quota_group_type(
 	} else if ( ((ngroups = sysconf(_SC_NGROUPS_MAX)) < 0) ||
 		    ((gids = malloc(ngroups * sizeof(gid_t))) == NULL) ||
 		    ((ngroups = getgroups(ngroups, gids)) < 0)) {
-		dofree = (gids != NULL);
+		if (gids)
+			free(gids);
 		gid = getgid();
 		gids = &gid;
 		ngroups = 1;
-- 
1.8.1.4



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             reply	other threads:[~2013-09-22  6:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-22  6:45 Li Zhong [this message]
2013-09-24 18:33 ` [PATCH] xfsprogs: fix potential memory free issues in quota_group_type() Mark Tinguely

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