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[4/9] fedfsd: don't return freed memory through **pathname parameter, ...

Message ID 20111205172337.7753.77748.stgit@degas.1015granger.net
State Accepted
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Chuck Lever Dec. 5, 2011, 5:23 p.m. UTC 
From: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>

even though upon error it will not be used.
* src/fedfsd/svc.c (fedfsd_pathwalk): On an error path, don't
set *pathname at all, and certainly not to a just-freed pointer.
Spotted by coverity.

Introduced by commit 0520ee72: "Initial commit," (March 29, 2011).

Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
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 src/fedfsd/svc.c |    6 ++++--
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/src/fedfsd/svc.c b/src/fedfsd/svc.c
index bbe1fa1..8ba6468 100644
--- a/src/fedfsd/svc.c
+++ b/src/fedfsd/svc.c
@@ -316,10 +316,12 @@  fedfsd_pathwalk(const FedFsPathName fpath, char **pathname)
 		xlog(D_CALL, "%s: Zero-component pathname", __func__);
 		strcat(result, "/");
 		retval = fedfsd_pathwalk_check_term(result);
-		if (retval != FEDFS_OK)
+		if (retval != FEDFS_OK) {
 			free(result);
+			return retval;
+		}
 		*pathname = result;
-		return retval;
+		return FEDFS_OK;
 	}
 
 	for (i = 0; i < fpath.FedFsPathName_len; i++) {