The buffer allocated by getline() for the lineptr argument needs to be
freed even if getline() fails.
The corollary of this is that even in a failure case the pointer is
non-null but points to garbage data.
Properly handle the failure by freeing the pointer and returning NULL to
indicate that failure to the caller.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas(a)t-8ch.de>
---
info/show.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/info/show.c b/info/show.c
index a3a57ef00ce6..1596eb77e62a 100644
--- a/info/show.c
+++ b/info/show.c
@@ -398,8 +398,11 @@ get_content (struct nbd_handle *nbd, int64_t size)
if (fp == NULL)
goto out;
r = getline (&ret, &len, fp);
- if (r == -1)
+ if (r == -1) {
+ free(ret);
+ ret = NULL;
goto out;
+ }
/* Remove trailing \n. */
if (r > 0 && ret[r-1] == '\n')
base-commit: 673a8c38571e128e6581c7e6ed6c45461c30bc8f
prerequisite-patch-id: 637ca3e7b5e88873d34b2865a134427338700b72
--
2.44.0