[redhat-lspp] device allocator patch: double free

Debora Velarde dvelarde at us.ibm.com
Wed Jun 28 01:18:15 UTC 2006


Below is a patch for a double free bug found by Coverity.

comparison_path may have already been freed



--- dev_allocator/progs/dev_allocator_config.c.orig     2006-06-27 
08:56:54.000000000 -0500
+++ dev_allocator/progs/dev_allocator_config.c  2006-06-27 
09:09:23.000000000 -0500
@@ -260,7 +260,8 @@
                        free(comparison_path);
                        break;
                }
-               free(comparison_path);
+               if (comparison_path)
+                       free(comparison_path);
                dptr = dptr->next;
        }
        free(this_devices_path);




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