[patch] fix another module loader memory leak
Bill Crawford
billcrawford1970 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 18 15:35:51 PST 2008
On Monday 18 February 2008 08:13:03 Peter Hutterer wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > LoadModule() returns the only reference to a fresh piece of memory (a
> > ModuleDescPtr). Sadly, xf86LoadModules() dropped the return value on the
> > floor, leaking memory for each module it loaded.
...
> thanks. pushed as 3abce3ea2b1f43bd111664d4a57e5ccd282acab0.
> (this patch required some minor modifications to work with current git
> master)
The free of the desc->name at least needs to be guarded to avoid dereferencing
a null pointer if the load failed ... attached.
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