From: "Brian D. Behlendorf" Subject: e2fsprogs coverity patch Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 18:11:29 -0800 Message-ID: <200702100211.l1A2BTRb007321@igsi.llnl.gov> Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, adilger@clusterfs.com, behlendorf1@llnl.gov, wartens2@llnl.gov To: tytso@mit.edu Return-path: Received: from nspiron-2.llnl.gov ([128.115.41.82]:24558 "EHLO nspiron-2.llnl.gov" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752857AbXBJCOj (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Feb 2007 21:14:39 -0500 Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org Lawrence Livermore National Labs recently ran the source code analysis tool Coverity over the e2fsprogs-1.39 source to see if it would identify any significant bugs. The analysis turned up 38 mostly minor issues which are enumerated here with patches. We went through and resolved these issues but would love to see these mostly minor changes reviewed and commited upstream. Thanks, Brian Behlendorf , and Herb Wartens ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Coverity ID: 33: Resource Leak The memory allocated by buf is not reclaimed. This patch addresses the issue. Index: e2fsprogs+chaos/misc/util.c =================================================================== --- e2fsprogs+chaos.orig/misc/util.c +++ e2fsprogs+chaos/misc/util.c @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ void check_mount(const char *device, int void parse_journal_opts(const char *opts) { - char *buf, *token, *next, *p, *arg; + char *buf = NULL, *token, *next, *p, *arg; int len; int journal_usage = 0; @@ -234,8 +234,11 @@ void parse_journal_opts(const char *opts "\tdevice=\n\n" "The journal size must be between " "1024 and 102400 filesystem blocks.\n\n"), stderr); + free(buf); exit(1); } + + free(buf); } /*