[PATCH GSoC RFC v13 01/12] transport-helper: fix memory leak of helper on disconnect
From: Pablo Sabater <hidden>
Date: 2026-06-19 14:56:49
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
From: Pablo Sabater <hidden>
Date: 2026-06-19 14:56:49
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
disconnect_helper() only frees data inside of the if(data->helper) block [1]. When the transport is disconnected without the helper being fully started, data->name allocated in transport_helper_init() is never freed. Move FREE_AND_NULL(data->name) outside the conditional block so it's always freed on disconnect. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/05fbadbae2184479c87c37675dde7bd79b3e32ab.1716465556.git.ps@pks.im/ (local) Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak [off-list ref] Mentored-by: Chandra Pratap [off-list ref] Signed-off-by: Pablo Sabater <redacted> --- transport-helper.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/transport-helper.c b/transport-helper.c
index 0fa0eb2d72..8a71354d50 100644
--- a/transport-helper.c
+++ b/transport-helper.c@@ -266,9 +266,9 @@ static int disconnect_helper(struct transport *transport) close(data->helper->out); fclose(data->out); res = finish_command(data->helper); - FREE_AND_NULL(data->name); FREE_AND_NULL(data->helper); } + FREE_AND_NULL(data->name); return res; }
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