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From: "Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@gmail.com>
To: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	rdunlap@xenotime.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop docproc segfaulting when SRCTREE isn't set.
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 15:03:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071009130315.GB4245@Ahmed> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200710090125.19089.rob@landley.net>

Hi Rob,

On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 01:25:18AM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
[...]
>  	FILE * infile;
> +
> +	srctree = getenv("SRCTREE");
> +	if (!srctree) srctree = getcwd(NULL,0);
>  	if (argc != 3) {
>  		usage();
>  		exit(1);

$ man getcwd

 char *getcwd(char *buf, size_t size);
      
 As an extension to the POSIX.1 standard, Linux (libc4, libc5, glibc) getcwd() 
 allocates the buffer dynamically using malloc() if buf is NULL on call.

Shouldn't "srctree" be free()ed in case getenv("SRCTREE") failed ?

Regards,

-- 
Ahmed S. Darwish
HomePage: http://darwish.07.googlepages.com
Blog: http://darwish-07.blogspot.com

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-09 13:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-09  6:25 [PATCH] Stop docproc segfaulting when SRCTREE isn't set Rob Landley
2007-10-09 13:03 ` Ahmed S. Darwish [this message]
2007-10-09 15:55   ` Randy Dunlap
2007-10-09 17:19     ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2007-10-09 17:24       ` Randy Dunlap
2007-10-09 17:51         ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2007-10-09 22:19   ` Rob Landley
2007-10-09 15:56 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-10-18 11:53 ` Sam Ravnborg

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