netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2] lnstat: fix strdup leak in -w argument parsing

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Date:   Wed, 16 Feb 2022 11:42:36 -0800
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     Maxim Petrov <mmrmaximuzz@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] lnstat: fix strdup leak in -w argument parsing

On Wed, 16 Feb 2022 22:40:58 +0300
Maxim Petrov <mmrmaximuzz@...il.com> wrote:

> On 2022-02-15 22:49 UTC, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > Would strdupa() be cleaner/simpler.  
> 
> strdupa will not free the allocated memory until the caller returns. In our
> case the caller is 'main', so despite valgrind will be happy, the memory
> will be wasted anyway.
> 
> However, I guess that the option is mostly used just like '-w 20', so the
> _wasted anyway_ strdupa memory is only about a few bytes in these cases,
> and from this perspective I also have no strong preference. But I don't
> know how this option is used by others.

There are not a lot of paths through the code in main, so not a bit worry.