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[v1] nis: Fix leak on realloc failure in nis_getnames

Message ID 20210728180637.1363311-1-rharwood@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded
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Series [v1] nis: Fix leak on realloc failure in nis_getnames |

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Commit Message

Robbie Harwood July 28, 2021, 6:06 p.m. UTC 
  If pos >= count but realloc fails, tmp will not have been placed in
getnames[pos] yet, and so will not be freed in free_null.  Detected
by Coverity.

Also remove misleading comment from nis_getnames(), since it actually
did properly release getnames when out of memory.
---
 nis/nis_subr.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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Patch

diff --git a/nis/nis_subr.c b/nis/nis_subr.c
index dd0e30071d..6784fc353f 100644
--- a/nis/nis_subr.c
+++ b/nis/nis_subr.c
@@ -103,9 +103,6 @@  count_dots (const_nis_name str)
   return count;
 }
 
-/* If we run out of memory, we don't give already allocated memory
-   free. The overhead for bringing getnames back in a safe state to
-   free it is to big. */
 nis_name *
 nis_getnames (const_nis_name name)
 {
@@ -271,7 +268,10 @@  nis_getnames (const_nis_name name)
 	      nis_name *newp = realloc (getnames,
 					(count + 1) * sizeof (char *));
 	      if (__glibc_unlikely (newp == NULL))
-		goto free_null;
+		{
+		  free (tmp);
+		  goto free_null;
+		}
 	      getnames = newp;
 	    }
 	  getnames[pos] = tmp;