PATCH for Coverity issues

Santosh Pradhan spradhan at redhat.com
Thu Feb 20 07:04:47 MST 2014


Hi Simo/Volker,
I replaced free() with krb5_free_default_realm() to deallocate the 
memory allocated by krb5_get_default_realm().

Attached the patch for review.

Best Regards,
Santosh

On 02/20/2014 06:52 PM, Simo wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 18:49 +0530, Santosh Pradhan wrote:
>> Thanks for the quick reply.
>>
>> On 02/20/2014 06:26 PM, Volker Lendecke wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 06:21:10PM +0530, Santosh Pradhan wrote:
>>>
>>>> What about the 2nd patch ?
>>> For this one people more familiar with the krb5 libraries
>>> should comment. I'm not sure a plain "free" here is the
>>> right thing. There's a ton of "krb5_free_something" routines
>>> used, and I don't know if there's a "krb5_free_realm"
>>> function or "krb5_free_string" that would be more
>>> appropriate in this context.
>> Yes, I was thinking of using krb5_free_default_realm() which takes a
>> context param (never used) along with realm param. Internally it
>> callskrb5_xfree() which is nothing but free(). But I found plain free()
>> is also used  e.g. in smb_krb5_make_principal() , FILE:
>> lib/krb5_wrap/krb5_samba.c.
> Please use krb5_free_default_realm() and fix the other place where
> free() is used directly too.
>
> Simo.
>

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