[PATCH 2/4] parser: free scandir's list

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Thu Nov 3 17:08:59 PDT 2011


On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 09:51:58PM -0200, przanoni at gmail.com wrote:
> From: Paulo Zanoni <paulo.r.zanoni at intel.com>
> 
> v2: move the free()s to the function that calls scandir
> 
> 80 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 411 of 631
>    at 0x4C2779D: malloc (vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
>    by 0x4C27927: realloc (vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
>    by 0x696A80D: scandir (scandir.c:108)
>    by 0x4D8828: OpenConfigDir (scan.c:854)
>    by 0x4D8A43: xf86openConfigDirFiles (scan.c:952)
>    by 0x49031F: xf86HandleConfigFile (xf86Config.c:2327)
>    by 0x49A9E3: InitOutput (xf86Init.c:365)
>    by 0x425A7A: main (main.c:204)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paulo Zanoni <paulo.r.zanoni at intel.com>
> ---
> 
> If we're going to move "free(list)" to outside the AddConfigDirFiles function,
> we must also move the "free(list[i])". IMHO, keeping these split as it was
> before is not a good idea. So either we keep this or v1.
> 

that's what I had envisioned, thanks.

Reviewed-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>

> 
>  hw/xfree86/parser/scan.c |    6 +++---
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/xfree86/parser/scan.c b/hw/xfree86/parser/scan.c
> index 668237b..78d57c4 100644
> --- a/hw/xfree86/parser/scan.c
> +++ b/hw/xfree86/parser/scan.c
> @@ -798,14 +798,12 @@ AddConfigDirFiles(const char *dirpath, struct dirent **list, int num)
>  				       "files opened\n");
>  				warnOnce = TRUE;
>  			}
> -			free(list[i]);
>  			continue;
>  		}
>  
>  		path = malloc(PATH_MAX + 1);
>  		snprintf(path, PATH_MAX + 1, "%s/%s", dirpath,
>  			 list[i]->d_name);
> -		free(list[i]);
>  		file = fopen(path, "r");
>  		if (!file) {
>  			free(path);
> @@ -856,8 +854,10 @@ OpenConfigDir(const char *path, const char *cmdline, const char *projroot,
>  		if (!found) {
>  			free(dirpath);
>  			dirpath = NULL;
> -			free(list);
>  		}
> +		while (num--)
> +			free(list[num]);
> +		free(list);
>  	}
>  
>  	free(pathcopy);
> -- 
> 1.7.7
> 


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