[pacman-dev] [PATCH] add_fileconflict, don't free if CALLOC fail

Rikard Falkeborn rikard.falkeborn at gmail.com
Sat Oct 24 19:51:10 UTC 2015


If CALLOC fails, conflict is NULL, so we shouldn't
attempt to free it's members, since that would
lead to a NULL pointer dereference.

Signed-off-by: Rikard Falkeborn <rikard.falkeborn at gmail.com>
---
Is there a reason none of the alpm_*_free() functions check if the input
is NULL? That would be more robust, and what I think would be expected,
since free() accepts NULL as input.

 lib/libalpm/conflict.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/libalpm/conflict.c b/lib/libalpm/conflict.c
index 0af3e3a..823fb67 100644
--- a/lib/libalpm/conflict.c
+++ b/lib/libalpm/conflict.c
@@ -273,7 +273,8 @@ static alpm_list_t *add_fileconflict(alpm_handle_t *handle,
 		alpm_pkg_t *pkg1, alpm_pkg_t *pkg2)
 {
 	alpm_fileconflict_t *conflict;
-	CALLOC(conflict, 1, sizeof(alpm_fileconflict_t), goto error);
+	CALLOC(conflict, 1, sizeof(alpm_fileconflict_t),
+	       RET_ERR(handle, ALPM_ERR_MEMORY, conflicts));
 
 	STRDUP(conflict->target, pkg1->name, goto error);
 	STRDUP(conflict->file, filestr, goto error);
-- 
2.6.2


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