[PATCH 1/2] ui-stats: free without condition

Christian Hesse list at eworm.de
Mon Oct 12 11:14:53 CEST 2015


John Keeping <john at keeping.me.uk> on Mon, 2015/10/12 10:10:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 10:59:34AM +0200, Christian Hesse wrote:
> > From: Christian Hesse <mail at eworm.de>
> > 
> > xstrdup() returns allocated memory or NULL. It's safe to call free()
> > without condition.
> > 
> > Coverity-Id 13839 is kind of false posivtive, but this should fix it
> > nevertheless.
> > 
> > Coverity-Id: 13839
> > Signed-off-by: Christian Hesse <mail at eworm.de>
> > ---
> >  ui-stats.c | 6 ++----
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)  
> 
> This is wrong - we don't have strdup_strings set in the string_list so
> it takes ownership of the pointer.  The test on item->util is used as a
> proxy testing if the entry is newly added to the list (in which case it
> has taken ownership of the string) or not (in which case we must free
> the string).

My assumption was that string_list_insert() handles this itself and
duplicates the string. Then please ignore the patches! :D
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