[Libvir] [patch 1/5] iptables: fix invalid free

Daniel Veillard veillard at redhat.com
Thu Mar 22 18:20:53 UTC 2007


On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 05:13:35PM +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 13:01 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > Index: qemud/iptables.c
> 
> 	Hmm, this stuff is already in one of the patches I sent.
> >  
> > -    if (!(argv = (char **)malloc(sizeof(char *) * (n+1))))
> > +    if (!(argv = (char **)calloc(1, sizeof(char *) * (n + 1))))
> 
> 	I'd do:
> 
>     if (!(argv = (char **)calloc(n + 1, sizeof(char *))))
> 
> 	Unless, of course, you're just being ironic about how stupid it is that
> we have calloc() rather than malloc0() ... in which case I thoroughly
> approve :-)

  no irony ... robotic, just s+malloc(+calloc(1, + in the right
contexts

> 	Same thing elsewhere in the patch e.g.
> 
> > -    if (!(*argv = malloc(len * sizeof(char *))))
> > +    if (!(*argv = calloc(1, len * sizeof(char *))))
> 
> 	should be:
> 
>     if (!(*argv = calloc(len, sizeof(char *))))

  okay, will do,

Daniel

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