On Mon, 06 Jan 2020 22:41:29 +0100, David Fries wrote: > > --- > I saw this when digging through the source code, wrote up a test case, > and verified with valgrind. I don't have that many sound cards so I > modified mixer.c to always take the conditional. alloca seemed like > the least effort way to fix this. Other thoughts were to test pfds != > spfds and free, but given how little bytes would be allocated putting > on the stack seems reasonable. Looks good to me. Could you give your sign-off? It's not strictly needed for alsa-lib, but we prefer having it. thanks, Takashi > > I also created the github pull request 20. > https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-lib/pull/20 > > src/mixer/mixer.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/src/mixer/mixer.c b/src/mixer/mixer.c > index 82056474..b1af9945 100644 > --- a/src/mixer/mixer.c > +++ b/src/mixer/mixer.c > @@ -767,7 +767,7 @@ int snd_mixer_wait(snd_mixer_t *mixer, int timeout) > if (count < 0) > return count; > if ((unsigned int) count > sizeof(spfds) / sizeof(spfds[0])) { > - pfds = malloc(count * sizeof(*pfds)); > + pfds = alloca(count * sizeof(*pfds)); > if (!pfds) > return -ENOMEM; > err = snd_mixer_poll_descriptors(mixer, pfds, > -- > 2.11.0 > > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-devel mailing list > Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel > _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
