[PATCH] Free the results of scandir()

Ethan Glasser-Camp glasse at cs.rpi.edu
Tue Feb 7 02:05:03 PST 2012


From: Ethan Glasser-Camp <ethan at betacantrips.com>

scandir() returns "strings allocated via malloc(3)" which are then
"collected in array namelist which is allocated via
malloc(3)". Currently we just free the array namelist. Instead, free
all the entries of namelist, and then free namelist.

entry only points to elements of namelist, so we don't free it
separately.
---

v3: I'm still learning the house style. Thanks Dmitry.

 notmuch-new.c |   16 ++++++++++------
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/notmuch-new.c b/notmuch-new.c
index a569a54..8dbebb3 100644
--- a/notmuch-new.c
+++ b/notmuch-new.c
@@ -559,12 +559,14 @@ add_files_recursive (notmuch_database_t *notmuch,
   DONE:
     if (next)
 	talloc_free (next);
-    if (entry)
-	free (entry);
     if (dir)
 	closedir (dir);
-    if (fs_entries)
+    if (fs_entries) {
+	for (i = 0; i < num_fs_entries; i++)
+	    free (fs_entries[i]);
+
 	free (fs_entries);
+    }
     if (db_subdirs)
 	notmuch_filenames_destroy (db_subdirs);
     if (db_files)
@@ -704,10 +706,12 @@ count_files (const char *path, int *count)
     }
 
   DONE:
-    if (entry)
-	free (entry);
-    if (fs_entries)
+    if (fs_entries) {
+	for (i = 0; i < num_fs_entries; i++)
+	    free (fs_entries[i]);
+
         free (fs_entries);
+    }
 }
 
 static void
-- 
1.7.5.4



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