NULL-checks before free()

W.C.A. Wijngaards wouter at nlnetlabs.nl
Tue Jan 5 12:39:47 UTC 2016


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Hi Michael,

On 11/12/15 21:02, Michael McConville wrote:
> W.C.A. Wijngaards via Unbound-users wrote:
>> On 10/12/15 01:35, Michael McConville via Unbound-users wrote:
>>> I thought I'd send a few quick cleanup diffs if people are 
>>> interested. I'm an OpenBSD dev and we include Unbound in our
>>> base system, so these are just things I've noticed over the
>>> past few months.
>>> 
>>> Here's the first one. POSIX specifies that free() is
>>> NULL-safe. All modern and almost all prehistoric platforms
>>> conform to this, and most codebases already assume it.
>> 
>> Thank for you for your patch, I have included it in the source.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Here's another: just removing a bunch of malloc casts.

I can see that was a lot of work, but the casts are necessary.
Otherwise, an assignment from an incompatible pointer type warning is
printed on some systems.  Others allow it, but it is not universal.

Best regards, Wouter

> 
> @@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ sizeof(time_t))* num; for(i=0; i<num; i++) s +=
> d->rr_len[i]; -	ad = (struct packed_rrset_data*)malloc(s); +	ad =
> malloc(s); if(!ad) { log_warn("error out of memory"); 
> ub_packed_rrset_parsedelete(ak, &worker->alloc); @@ -272,7 +272,7
> @@ static struct ta_key* anchor_new_ta_key(uint8_t* rdata, size_t
> rdata_len, uint16_t type) { -	struct ta_key* k = (struct
> ta_key*)malloc(sizeof(*k)); +	struct ta_key* k =
> malloc(sizeof(*k)); if(!k) return NULL; memset(k, 0, sizeof(*k)); 
> @@ -854,8 +854,7 @@ static struct ub_packed_rrset_key* 
> assemble_it(struct trust_anchor* ta, size_t num, uint16_t type) { -
> struct ub_packed_rrset_key* pkey = (struct ub_packed_rrset_key*) -
> malloc(sizeof(*pkey)); +	struct ub_packed_rrset_key* pkey =
> malloc(sizeof(*pkey)); struct packed_rrset_data* pd; struct ta_key*
> tk; size_t i;

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