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Subject: Re: [PATCH] bcache-tools: check whether allocating memory fails in tree()
From: Zhiqiang Liu <liuzhiqiang26 () huawei ! com>
Date: 2021-03-03 0:50:25
Message-ID: 35236da4-66cb-2477-c5b5-2e3185658c06 () huawei ! com
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Thank you for doing that.
Zhiqiang Liu
On 2021/3/2 21:33, Coly Li wrote:
> On 2/27/21 10:35 AM, Zhiqiang Liu wrote:
>>
>> In tree(), we do not check whether malloc() returns NULL,
>> it may cause potential Null pointer dereference problem.
>> In addition, when we fail to list devices, we should free(out)
>> before return.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: ZhiqiangLiu <lzhq28@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
>
> Applied. BTW, I change your above name string from ZhiqiangLiu to
> Zhiqiang Liu, because of the checkpatch.pl warning.
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> Coly Li
>
>
>> ---
>> bcache.c | 9 ++++++++-
>> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/bcache.c b/bcache.c
>> index 044d401..1c4cef9 100644
>> --- a/bcache.c
>> +++ b/bcache.c
>> @@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ void replace_line(char **dest, const char *from, const char *to)
>>
>> int tree(void)
>> {
>> - char *out = (char *)malloc(4096);
>> + char *out;
>> const char *begin = ".\n";
>> const char *middle = "├─";
>> const char *tail = "└─";
>> @@ -184,8 +184,15 @@ int tree(void)
>> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&head);
>> int ret;
>>
>> + out = (char *)malloc(4096);
>> + if (out == NULL) {
>> + fprintf(stderr, "Error: fail to allocate memory buffer\n");
>> + return 1;
>> + }
>> +
>> ret = list_bdevs(&head);
>> if (ret != 0) {
>> + free(out);
>> fprintf(stderr, "Failed to list devices\n");
>> return ret;
>> }
>>
>
>
> .
>
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