Memory leak in fedora 8 xorg server 1.3

[Peter Harris]

Barry Scott wrote:
> In miregion.c xfreeData macro: Why do a test on the size?
> Doesn't this lead to a leak of a malloc'ed block of memory?
> 
> #define xfreeData(reg) if ((reg)->data && (reg)->data->size) 
> xfree((reg)->data)

No. If the size is 0, then reg->data is miEmptyData (or the pixman
equivalent in more recent servers). This is a static global, is shared
amongst all single-rectangle regions, and can not be freed.

Peter Harris
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