Re: [PATCH 5/5] getopt: fix memory leaks and integer overflows [ASAN & valgrind]

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On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 09:35:45PM +0100, Sami Kerola wrote:
> The getopt(1) is short living command, and one could argue ensuring all
> allocations are freed at end of execution is waste of time.  There is a
> point in that, but making test-suite runs to be less noisy with ASAN is also
> nice as it encourages reading the errors when/if they happen.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Yuriy M. Kaminskiy <yumkam@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@xxxxxx>
> ---
>  misc-utils/getopt.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/misc-utils/getopt.c b/misc-utils/getopt.c
> index 2cff2eb..dc2a976 100644
> --- a/misc-utils/getopt.c
> +++ b/misc-utils/getopt.c
> @@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ struct getopt_control {
>  	int long_options_length;	/* length of options array */
>  	int long_options_nr;		/* number of used elements in array */
>  	unsigned int
> +		free_name:1,		/* free up argv[0] after printout */

 I did a change to the code, it seems more elegant to keep pointer to
 the 'name' in the control struct than maintain free_name flag and
 call free(argv[0]).

    https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/commit/e402d6d3b149c34faa5abd5a0cef8284b4ae1af3


  Karel

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