Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] vshCommandParse: placate coverity

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On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 02:42:54PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Here are two patches to avoid semblance of a leak.
> 
> One adds a useless use of VIR_FREE.
> The other adds an assertion that the pointer to would-be-leaked
> storage is NULL.  There's already an assertion in this file,
> so no need to add an "#include ...".
> 
> Take your pick.
> 
> >From 2070262e7f1a4803e06a6f75bd96091c5754164d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Jim Meyering <meyering@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:34:48 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] vshCommandParse: placate coverity
> 
> There is no real leak here, but Coverity-Prevent thinks there is.
> It does not see that while there are four ways to return from
> vshCommandGetToken with VSH_TK_END, none of them results in allocation
> of a result.
> * tools/virsh.c (vshCommandParse): Add a (currently) useless VIR_FREE,
> to ensure that we never leak when vshCommandGetToken returns VSH_TK_END.
> ---
>  tools/virsh.c |    4 +++-
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/virsh.c b/tools/virsh.c
> index 7db48d9..4ffa154 100644
> --- a/tools/virsh.c
> +++ b/tools/virsh.c
> @@ -8222,8 +8222,10 @@ vshCommandParse(vshControl *ctl, char *cmdstr)
> 
>              str = end;
> 
> -            if (tk == VSH_TK_END)
> +            if (tk == VSH_TK_END) {
> +                VIR_FREE(tkdata);
>                  break;
> +            }
>              if (tk == VSH_TK_ERROR)
>                  goto syntaxError;
> 

  I prefer that one :-)

Daniel

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