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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv3 2/2] envlist.c: handle strdup failure
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Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv3 2/2] envlist.c: handle strdup failure |
Date: |
Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:30:26 +0200 |
Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 22.05.2012 12:16, schrieb Jim Meyering:
>> From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
>>
>> Without this, envlist_to_environ may silently fail to copy all
>> strings into the destination buffer, and both callers would leak
>> any env strings allocated after a failing strdup, because the
>> freeing code stops at the first NULL pointer.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
>> ---
>> envlist.c | 12 ++++++++++--
>> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/envlist.c b/envlist.c
>> index e44889b..df5c723 100644
>> --- a/envlist.c
>> +++ b/envlist.c
>> @@ -234,8 +234,16 @@ envlist_to_environ(const envlist_t *envlist, size_t
>> *count)
>> return (NULL);
>>
>> for (entry = envlist->el_entries.lh_first; entry != NULL;
>> - entry = entry->ev_link.le_next) {
>> - *(penv++) = strdup(entry->ev_var);
>> + entry = entry->ev_link.le_next, penv++) {
>
> Scratch my comment on 1/2, there's an added penv++ that I overlooked.
> Not changing the indentation twice would still be nice.
I posted a V4 that does that, and removes parens around return arguments
as well. However, I did not remove assignments from conditionals. IMHO,
that would require an inordinate amount of change for the marginal gain
of making legacy code conform.