Re: [PATCH ima-evm-utils] evmctl: fix memory leak in get_password
From: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Date: 2021-08-11 17:32:00
From: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Date: 2021-08-11 17:32:00
On Wed, 2021-08-11 at 13:51 -0300, Bruno Meneguele wrote:
On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 10:52:00AM -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote:quoted
quoted
- return pwd; + return password;Wouldn't a simpler fix be to test "pwd" here? if (!pwd) free(password); return pwd;The problem is on success, when 'pwd' is actually not NULL. With that, I can't free(password). I would need to asprintf(pwd, ...) or strndup(password). Because of that, I thought it would be cleaner to remove 'password' completely.
I see. So instead of "return pwd" as suggested above,
if (!pwd) {
free(password);
password = NULL; <== set or return NULL
}
return password;
thanks,
Mimi