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* avoid leak upon failed realloc
@ 2007-06-16 17:31 Jim Meyering
  2007-06-18 14:04 ` Dave Kleikamp
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Jim Meyering @ 2007-06-16 17:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-ext4

Here's a tiny fix to avoid a leak when realloc fails:

2007-06-16  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

	* tdb.c (tdb_append): Don't leak a buffer when realloc fails.

diff -r 777972a573b3 lib/ext2fs/tdb.c
--- a/lib/ext2fs/tdb.c	Fri Jun 15 18:05:09 2007 +0200
+++ b/lib/ext2fs/tdb.c	Sat Jun 16 19:28:50 2007 +0200
@@ -3460,8 +3460,15 @@ int tdb_append(struct tdb_context *tdb,
 	if (dbuf.dptr == NULL) {
 		dbuf.dptr = (unsigned char *)malloc(new_dbuf.dsize);
 	} else {
-		dbuf.dptr = (unsigned char *)realloc(dbuf.dptr,
-						     dbuf.dsize + new_dbuf.dsize);
+		unsigned char *new_dptr
+		  = (unsigned char *)realloc(dbuf.dptr,
+					     dbuf.dsize + new_dbuf.dsize);
+		if (new_dptr == NULL) {
+			free(dbuf.dptr);
+			dbuf.dptr = NULL;
+		} else {
+			dbuf.dptr = new_dptr;
+		}
 	}

 	if (dbuf.dptr == NULL) {

Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>

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