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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: kusmabite@gmail.com
Cc: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>, "Koch\,
	Rick \(Subcontractor\)" <Rick.Koch@tbe.com>,
	Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: CPPCheck found 24 high risk bugs in Git v.1.8.3.4
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 20:44:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eh9op5gq.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABPQNSZidMv4MEW+SqVm94pX4szw9QW8LFWsvBTOXYH7ezzycw@mail.gmail.com> (Erik Faye-Lund's message of "Tue, 20 Aug 2013 01:15:02 +0200")

Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> writes:

> diff --git a/compat/win32/syslog.c b/compat/win32/syslog.c
> index d015e43..0641f4e 100644
> --- a/compat/win32/syslog.c
> +++ b/compat/win32/syslog.c
> @@ -43,11 +43,14 @@ void syslog(int priority, const char *fmt, ...)
>   va_end(ap);
>
>   while ((pos = strstr(str, "%1")) != NULL) {
> - str = realloc(str, ++str_len + 1);
> - if (!str) {
> + char *tmp = realloc(str, ++str_len + 1);
> + if (!tmp) {
>   warning("realloc failed: '%s'", strerror(errno));
> + free(str);
>   return;
>   }
> + pos = tmp + (pos - str);

Pedantically, this is undefined (uses of both pos and str may trap after
realloc has freed the original pointer), it is better to calculate the
difference before calling realloc.

Andreas.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-08-20 18:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-19 17:09 CPPCheck found 24 high risk bugs in Git v.1.8.3.4 Koch, Rick (Subcontractor)
2013-08-19 20:03 ` Philip Oakley
2013-08-19 20:40   ` Jeff King
2013-08-19 20:46     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-19 20:52       ` Johan Herland
     [not found]   ` <85C8141E5DAD94428A121F706995A31F010F116FDADE@MX1.net.tbe.com>
2013-08-19 21:46     ` Philip Oakley
2013-08-23 19:51       ` CPPCheck found 24 high risk bugs in Git v.1.8.3.4 (fetch.c L588) Philip Oakley
2013-08-19 22:55   ` CPPCheck found 24 high risk bugs in Git v.1.8.3.4 Philip Oakley
2013-08-19 23:15     ` Erik Faye-Lund
2013-08-20 14:33       ` Jeff King
2013-08-20 18:44       ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2013-08-20 20:34         ` René Scharfe
2013-08-20 22:28           ` Erik Faye-Lund
2013-08-20 22:26         ` Erik Faye-Lund
2013-08-20 23:01           ` Andreas Schwab
2013-08-20 23:45             ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-21  0:01             ` Erik Faye-Lund
2013-08-19 21:36 ` Stefan Beller

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