On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Miklos Szeredi <mik...@szeredi.hu> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Marco Schuster <ma...@m-s-d.eu> wrote: >> In the source file lib/fuse_opt.c, the function process_opt_param leaks >> memory by silently overwriting *(char **) var = copy; in line 218. > > That's true. But there's a "but". The previous value may not have > been initialized and then we may not be able to free it. The app is > probably broken at that point anyway, yet we don't want to make it > more broken.
I found out about this as PHP tracks the memory it allocated with its own emalloc and friends and complains when you don't call efree() on them all. But I don't see any way to fix this for real, as every external application can use its own memory/heap allocator... Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
