[PATCH] console: use regular malloc for log messages

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Tue May 12 23:23:25 PDT 2015


Using xfunctions to allocate log messages is not a good idea. Should
we be out of memory the xfunctions will panic which will cause another
allocation, so we deadlock the system with no message going out.

Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
---
 common/console_common.c | 14 +++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/common/console_common.c b/common/console_common.c
index 41a6929..36bd1dd 100644
--- a/common/console_common.c
+++ b/common/console_common.c
@@ -106,15 +106,23 @@ static void pr_puts(int level, const char *str)
 			log_clean(barebox_log_max_messages - 1);
 
 		if (barebox_log_max_messages >= 0) {
-			log = xzalloc(sizeof(*log));
-			log->msg = xstrdup(str);
+			log = malloc(sizeof(*log));
+			if (!log)
+				goto nolog;
+
+			log->msg = strdup(str);
+			if (!log->msg) {
+				free(log);
+				goto nolog;
+			}
+
 			log->timestamp = get_time_ns();
 			log->level = level;
 			list_add_tail(&log->list, &barebox_logbuf);
 			barebox_logbuf_num_messages++;
 		}
 	}
-
+nolog:
 	if (level > barebox_loglevel)
 		return;
 
-- 
2.1.4




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