[PATCH] xv: fix double free in AddResource failure case

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Tue Mar 1 20:39:01 UTC 2016


XvdiDestroyVideoNotifyList already frees the list if AddResource fails,
so don't do it twice.  And set tpn->client to NULL explicitly to avoid
confusing uninitialized memory with a valid value.

Signed-off-by: Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org>
---
 Xext/xvmain.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Xext/xvmain.c b/Xext/xvmain.c
index 0c6f25b..de6cc7a 100644
--- a/Xext/xvmain.c
+++ b/Xext/xvmain.c
@@ -800,10 +800,9 @@ XvdiSelectVideoNotify(ClientPtr client, DrawablePtr pDraw, BOOL onoff)
         if (!(tpn = malloc(sizeof(XvVideoNotifyRec))))
             return BadAlloc;
         tpn->next = NULL;
-        if (!AddResource(pDraw->id, XvRTVideoNotifyList, tpn)) {
-            free(tpn);
+        tpn->client = NULL;
+        if (!AddResource(pDraw->id, XvRTVideoNotifyList, tpn))
             return BadAlloc;
-        }
     }
     else {
         /* LOOK TO SEE IF ENTRY ALREADY EXISTS */
-- 
2.7.0



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