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Message-ID: <CAKgNAkgQO+Spi=g6sC8dXdEGkJDOLziBYaxa7phdT9tQL=BuVA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 17 Sep 2020 07:42:43 +0200
From:   "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
To:     Marko Hrastovec <marko.hrastovec@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-man <linux-man@...r.kernel.org>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] freeaddrinfo.3: memory leaks in freeaddrinfo examples

Hi Marko,

On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 at 07:34, Marko Hrastovec <marko.hrastovec@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> examples in freeaddrinfo.3 have a memory leak, which is replicated in many real world programs copying an example from manual pages. The two examples should have different order of lines, which is done in the following patch.
>
> diff --git a/man3/getaddrinfo.3 b/man3/getaddrinfo.3
> index c9a4b3e43..4d383bea0 100644
> --- a/man3/getaddrinfo.3
> +++ b/man3/getaddrinfo.3
> @@ -711,13 +711,13 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
>          close(sfd);
>      }
>
> +    freeaddrinfo(result);           /* No longer needed */
> +
>      if (rp == NULL) {               /* No address succeeded */
>          fprintf(stderr, "Could not bind\en");
>          exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
>      }
>
> -    freeaddrinfo(result);           /* No longer needed */
> -
>      /* Read datagrams and echo them back to sender */
>
>      for (;;) {
> @@ -804,13 +804,13 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
>          close(sfd);
>      }
>
> +    freeaddrinfo(result);           /* No longer needed */
> +
>      if (rp == NULL) {               /* No address succeeded */
>          fprintf(stderr, "Could not connect\en");
>          exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
>      }
>
> -    freeaddrinfo(result);           /* No longer needed */
> -
>      /* Send remaining command\-line arguments as separate
>         datagrams, and read responses from server */
>

When you say "memory leak", do you mean that something like valgrind
complains? I mean, strictly speaking, there is no memory leak that I
can see that is fixed by that patch, since the if-branches that the
freeaddrinfo() calls are shifted above terminates the process in each
case.

Thanks,

Michael


-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/

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