[PATCH] Tiny memory leak in lib/version.c

[Volker Lendecke]

On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 03:14:45PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> while implementing the extra_info version stuff, it occured to me that
> samba_version_string() potentially allocates memory which is unused but
> never free'd.

Thanks :-)

It might be a bit pedantic, but in Samba3 we prefer
SAFE_FREE over free(). SAFE_FREE NULLs out after the free,
so re-using that pointer leads to a more direct segfault
rather than silent memory corruption.

Volker
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