[PATCH] add missing talloc_free

[Volker Lendecke]

On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 07:22:06AM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Feb 2012, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall at lip6.fr> wrote:
> >>There seem to be a number of places in the samba code where calls to
> >>talloc_free are omitted.  This patch fixes some cases.
> >
> >Are you aware of the way that talloc works? It seems likely to me that
> >when a talloc_free is done somewhere further up in the call stack that
> >if frees all memory.
> 
> OK, I see from the behavior of talloc how this could be the case.
> But still it seems odd to free a value on some failures and not free
> it on others, unless there is a reason to do so.

Right. talloc fosters sloppy programming at times. I many of
those cases should be fixed, although they might not be real
bugs.

Volker

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