[PATCH libevdev 3/4] Plug a memory leak for name, uniq, phys
Peter Hutterer
peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Wed Feb 26 19:25:53 PST 2014
If a device is assigned a name, uniq and/or phys before calling
libevdev_set_fd(), those values would leak.
Change the default alloc to calloc, so name, uniq, and phys are initialized to
zero before we call libevdev_reset
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>
---
libevdev/libevdev.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/libevdev/libevdev.c b/libevdev/libevdev.c
index 526c448..6127e64 100644
--- a/libevdev/libevdev.c
+++ b/libevdev/libevdev.c
@@ -133,6 +133,9 @@ log_msg(enum libevdev_log_priority priority,
static void
libevdev_reset(struct libevdev *dev)
{
+ free(dev->name);
+ free(dev->phys);
+ free(dev->uniq);
memset(dev, 0, sizeof(*dev));
dev->fd = -1;
dev->initialized = false;
@@ -148,7 +151,7 @@ libevdev_new(void)
{
struct libevdev *dev;
- dev = malloc(sizeof(*dev));
+ dev = calloc(1, sizeof(*dev));
if (!dev)
return NULL;
--
1.8.4.2
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