From 6fcb24d785a2c2d626bac6999aee6b3ab368be15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Jones Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 16:11:40 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Don't leak the last argument expanded by expandNextArg() While using POPT_ARG_ARGV, I noticed this in valgrind's leak checker: ==1738== HEAP SUMMARY: ==1738== in use at exit: 8 bytes in 1 blocks ==1738== total heap usage: 94 allocs, 93 frees, 42,319 bytes allocated ==1738== ==1738== 8 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 1 of 1 ==1738== at 0x4C2EB6B: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:299) ==1738== by 0x4E3DF47: expandNextArg (popt.c:699) ==1738== by 0x4E3F681: poptGetNextOpt (popt.c:1501) ==1738== by 0x401F72: main (bingrep.c:433) ==1738== ==1738== LEAK SUMMARY: ==1738== definitely lost: 8 bytes in 1 blocks ==1738== indirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==1738== possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==1738== still reachable: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==1738== suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks My command line argument is a 7-byte string, and on first glance, it appears this is because both expandNextArg() and poptSaveString() duplicate the string. The copy from poptSaveString() is the consuming program's responsibility to free, but the intermediate pointer is popt's responsibility. Upon further examination, it appears popt normally does free this string, but it only does it on the next entry to poptGetNextOpt(), and on cleanOSE() in the case if we're not already at the bottom of con->OptionStack. This patch modifies poptResetContext() to ensure we'll always attempt to free con->os->nextArg regardless of our position in the OptionStack, and removes the duplicate free of con->os->argb in poptFreeContext(), as it's called unconditionally by the poptResetContext() call on the previous line. This ensures that if poptGetNextOpt() isn't re-intered, poptFreeContext() will free the memory that was allocated. Now valgrind tells me: ==31734== HEAP SUMMARY: ==31734== in use at exit: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==31734== total heap usage: 94 allocs, 94 frees, 42,319 bytes allocated ==31734== ==31734== All heap blocks were freed -- no leaks are possible Signed-off-by: Peter Jones --- popt.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/popt.c b/popt.c index 1a53f40..72fbf5c 100644 --- a/popt.c +++ b/popt.c @@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ void poptResetContext(poptContext con) con->os->argb = PBM_FREE(con->os->argb); con->os->currAlias = NULL; con->os->nextCharArg = NULL; - con->os->nextArg = NULL; + con->os->nextArg = _free(con->os->nextArg); con->os->next = 1; /* skip argv[0] */ con->numLeftovers = 0; @@ -1617,7 +1617,6 @@ poptContext poptFreeContext(poptContext con) { if (con == NULL) return con; poptResetContext(con); - con->os->argb = _free(con->os->argb); con->aliases = poptFreeItems(con->aliases, con->numAliases); con->numAliases = 0; -- 2.13.3