[PATCH] ubifs-utils: common: fix memory leak in devtable.c

Zhihao Cheng chengzhihao1 at huawei.com
Thu Apr 24 20:22:25 PDT 2025


在 2025/4/25 2:19, ant.v.moryakov at gmail.com 写道:
> From: AntonMoryakov <ant.v.moryakov at gmail.com>
> 
> Report of the static analyzer:
> Dynamic memory, referenced by 'line', is allocated at devtable.c:356
> by calling function 'getline' and lost at devtable.c:388.
> (line: while (getline(&line, &len, f) != -1) {)
> 
> Correct explained:
> Now line is freed in any exit scenario via out_close which eliminates this error.
> 
> Triggers found by static analyzer Svace.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anton Moryakov <ant.v.moryakov at gmail.co
> 
> ---
>   ubifs-utils/common/devtable.c | 1 +
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)


According to the realization of getline[1], feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1 at huawei.com>

[1] https://github.com/bminor/glibc/blob/master/libio/iogetdelim.c#L40
> 
> diff --git a/ubifs-utils/common/devtable.c b/ubifs-utils/common/devtable.c
> index 7347f09..2e581ff 100644
> --- a/ubifs-utils/common/devtable.c
> +++ b/ubifs-utils/common/devtable.c
> @@ -392,6 +392,7 @@ int parse_devtable(const char *tbl_file)
>   
>   out_close:
>   	fclose(f);
> +	free(line);
>   	free_devtable_info();
>   	return -1;
>   }
> 




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