[PATCH 02/15] mkfs.ubifs: don't leak copied command line arguments

[David Oberhollenzer <david.oberhollenzer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For some command line flags, the argument string is copied. Simply
writing over the buffer leads to a resource leak if the same flag
is specified on the command line more than once.

This patch adds a free() call to the old buffer before overwriting
it with the new copy.

Signed-off-by: David Oberhollenzer <david.oberhollenzer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 ubifs-utils/mkfs.ubifs/mkfs.ubifs.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ubifs-utils/mkfs.ubifs/mkfs.ubifs.c b/ubifs-utils/mkfs.ubifs/mkfs.ubifs.c
index bf1290f..ea0afee 100644
--- a/ubifs-utils/mkfs.ubifs/mkfs.ubifs.c
+++ b/ubifs-utils/mkfs.ubifs/mkfs.ubifs.c
@@ -580,6 +580,7 @@ static int get_options(int argc, char**argv)
 		switch (opt) {
 		case 'r':
 		case 'd':
+			free(root);
 			root_len = strlen(optarg);
 			root = xmalloc(root_len + 2);
 
@@ -726,6 +727,7 @@ static int get_options(int argc, char**argv)
 			do_create_inum_attr = 1;
 			break;
 		case 's':
+			free(context);
 			context_len = strlen(optarg);
 			context = (char *) xmalloc(context_len + 1);
 			if (!context)
-- 
2.21.0


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