I could only reproduce on some old pentium machine, don't know why. Anyway, the patch fixes a problem resulting in a double free that occurs when using batch files that contains a special combination of broken up lines and comments as reported in: http://bugs.debian.org/398912
Thanks to Michal Pokrywka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for testcase and information on which conditions problem could be reproduced under. Signed-off-by: Andreas Henriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/utils.h | 2 +- lib/utils.c | 8 +++++--- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/utils.h b/include/utils.h index 7da2b29..9ee55fd 100644 --- a/include/utils.h +++ b/include/utils.h @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ int print_timestamp(FILE *fp); #define ARRAY_SIZE(x) (sizeof(x) / sizeof((x)[0])) extern int cmdlineno; -extern size_t getcmdline(char **line, size_t *len, FILE *in); +extern ssize_t getcmdline(char **line, size_t *len, FILE *in); extern int makeargs(char *line, char *argv[], int maxargs); #endif /* __UTILS_H__ */ diff --git a/lib/utils.c b/lib/utils.c index 4c42dfd..ffef6fe 100644 --- a/lib/utils.c +++ b/lib/utils.c @@ -642,9 +642,9 @@ int print_timestamp(FILE *fp) int cmdlineno; /* Like glibc getline but handle continuation lines and comments */ -size_t getcmdline(char **linep, size_t *lenp, FILE *in) +ssize_t getcmdline(char **linep, size_t *lenp, FILE *in) { - size_t cc; + ssize_t cc; char *cp; if ((cc = getline(linep, lenp, in)) < 0) @@ -672,9 +672,11 @@ size_t getcmdline(char **linep, size_t *lenp, FILE *in) if (cp) *cp = '\0'; - *linep = realloc(*linep, strlen(*linep) + strlen(line1) + 1); + *lenp = strlen(*linep) + strlen(line1) + 1; + *linep = realloc(*linep, *lenp); if (!*linep) { fprintf(stderr, "Out of memory\n"); + *lenp = 0; return -1; } cc += cc1 - 2; -- 1.5.3.4 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html