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From 69bc94779c2f035a9fffdb5327a54c3aeca73ed5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Kelley <simon@thekelleys.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 20:44:50 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix memory leak in helper.c
Thanks to Xu Mingjie <xumingjie1995@outlook.com> for spotting this.
---
src/helper.c | 12 +++++++++---
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/helper.c b/src/helper.c
index 33ba120..c392eec 100644
--- a/src/helper.c
+++ b/src/helper.c
@@ -80,7 +80,8 @@ int create_helper(int event_fd, int err_fd, uid_t uid, gid_t gid, long max_fd)
pid_t pid;
int i, pipefd[2];
struct sigaction sigact;
-
+ unsigned char *alloc_buff = NULL;
+
/* create the pipe through which the main program sends us commands,
then fork our process. */
if (pipe(pipefd) == -1 || !fix_fd(pipefd[1]) || (pid = fork()) == -1)
@@ -186,11 +187,16 @@ int create_helper(int event_fd, int err_fd, uid_t uid, gid_t gid, long max_fd)
struct script_data data;
char *p, *action_str, *hostname = NULL, *domain = NULL;
unsigned char *buf = (unsigned char *)daemon->namebuff;
- unsigned char *end, *extradata, *alloc_buff = NULL;
+ unsigned char *end, *extradata;
int is6, err = 0;
int pipeout[2];
- free(alloc_buff);
+ /* Free rarely-allocated memory from previous iteration. */
+ if (alloc_buff)
+ {
+ free(alloc_buff);
+ alloc_buff = NULL;
+ }
/* we read zero bytes when pipe closed: this is our signal to exit */
if (!read_write(pipefd[0], (unsigned char *)&data, sizeof(data), 1))
--
1.7.10.4
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