[Freeipa-devel] [PATCHES] 101-107 Fixes for various Coverity issues

[Martin Kosek]

On 02/27/2013 01:55 PM, Martin Kosek wrote:
> On 02/27/2013 01:39 PM, Martin Kosek wrote:
>> On 02/27/2013 12:35 PM, Sumit Bose wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> the attached patches 102-107 fix issues found by Coverity which are
>>> tracked by tickets #3422-#3427 and remove an unused variable
>>> (patch 101).
>>>
>>> bye,
>>> Sumit
>>>
>>
>> I see just one issue. In patch 0105:
>>
>> -    global_ipactx = (struct ipa_context *)malloc(sizeof(global_ipactx));
>> +    global_ipactx = (struct ipa_context *)malloc(sizeof(*global_ipactx));
>>
>> I do not think this will work right. *global_ipactx will just de-reference
>> global_ipactxt and run sizeof on the result, right?
>>
>> I would prefer this change:
>>
>> global_ipactx = (struct ipa_context *)malloc(sizeof(struct ipa_context *));
>>
>> Martin
>>
> 
> We just discussed this in Brno - in fact your change should be right as you
> allocate memory for the whole structure and not just a pointer to the structure
> (though I personally would prefer sizeof(struct ipa_context) as it is clearer).
> 
> Hmrph, C language 101 revisited :-)
> 
> Martin
> 

Good, my tests were OK with your patchset.

ACK for all patches, pushed to master, ipa-3-1.

Martin