[PATCH 1/2] xfree86: fix a memory leak in edidMakeAtom().

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Thu Jul 11 15:02:22 PDT 2013


On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 12:39:20 -0400, alexdeucher at gmail.com wrote:

> From: Leo Liu <leo.liu at amd.com>
> 
> leak happens when looping xrandr prop.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Leo Liu <leo.liu at amd.com>
> ---
>  hw/xfree86/common/xf86Helper.c |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Helper.c b/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Helper.c
> index 721159d..bb17ecc 100644
> --- a/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Helper.c
> +++ b/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Helper.c
> @@ -1813,6 +1813,7 @@ xf86RegisterRootWindowProperty(int ScrnIndex, Atom property, Atom type,
>      }
>      else {
>          free(pNewProp->name);
> +        free(pNewProp->data);
>          existing = TRUE;
>      }
>  
AFAICT xf86RegisterRootWindowProperty can be called with non-malloc
'value' (e.g. for the SeatId stuff in InitOutput, although that's only
for serverGeneration == 1).  Is there any way to make this a little more
obviously correct?

Cheers,
Julien


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