[dm-devel] [PATCH 02/12] Return the correct size buffer in set_value()

Christophe Varoqui christophe.varoqui at opensvc.com
Tue Jul 1 18:47:36 UTC 2014


Applied.
Thanks.


On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 7:13 AM, Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins at redhat.com>
wrote:

> When multipath was mallocing the buffer in set_value, it was using
> sizeof(char *), instead of sizeof(char), so it was allocating a buffer
> big enough for an array of pointers instead of characters.
>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins at redhat.com>
> ---
>  libmultipath/parser.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/libmultipath/parser.c b/libmultipath/parser.c
> index 526c45b..0d4c870 100644
> --- a/libmultipath/parser.c
> +++ b/libmultipath/parser.c
> @@ -408,11 +408,11 @@ set_value(vector strvec)
>                         len += strlen(str);
>                         if (!alloc)
>                                 alloc =
> -                                   (char *) MALLOC(sizeof (char *) *
> +                                   (char *) MALLOC(sizeof (char) *
>                                                     (len + 1));
>                         else {
>                                 alloc =
> -                                   REALLOC(alloc, sizeof (char *) * (len
> + 1));
> +                                   REALLOC(alloc, sizeof (char) * (len +
> 1));
>                                 tmp = VECTOR_SLOT(strvec, i-1);
>                                 if (alloc && *str != '"' && *tmp != '"')
>                                         strncat(alloc, " ", 1);
> @@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ set_value(vector strvec)
>                                 strncat(alloc, str, strlen(str));
>                 }
>         } else {
> -               alloc = MALLOC(sizeof (char *) * (size + 1));
> +               alloc = MALLOC(sizeof (char) * (size + 1));
>                 if (alloc)
>                         memcpy(alloc, str, size);
>         }
> --
> 1.8.3.1
>
>
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