the sorry saga of the talloc soname 'fix'

Sam Liddicott sam at liddicott.com
Thu Jul 9 13:53:05 GMT 2009


* Volker Lendecke wrote, On 09/07/09 14:40:
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 08:55:34AM -0400, simo wrote:
>   
>> talloc_steal() would be an especially bad case. If you don't check the
>> return, as it could lead to access to freed memory. Unchecked errors
>> from talloc_free() would lead to memory leaks.
>>     
>
> Wait a second -- talloc_steal() can fail now?????
>   
It will fail no more than it could before.
The only line of talloc_steal affected in the patch was shameful removal
of white space.

Sam


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