realloc doesn't free the original buffer when the reallocation failed. An abort of read_file without free'ing the buffer would leak it.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]> --- vis/vis.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/vis/vis.c b/vis/vis.c index 7a8e780..b51fede 100644 --- a/vis/vis.c +++ b/vis/vis.c @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ static char *read_file(char *fname) { FILE *fp; - char *buf = NULL; + char *buf = NULL, *buf_tmp; size_t size, ret; fp = fopen(fname, "r"); @@ -51,10 +51,13 @@ static char *read_file(char *fname) size = 0; while (!feof(fp)) { - buf = realloc(buf, size + 4097); - if (!buf) + buf_tmp = realloc(buf, size + 4097); + if (!buf_tmp) { + free(buf); return NULL; + } + buf = buf_tmp; ret = fread(buf + size, 1, 4096, fp); size += ret; } -- 2.0.0.rc2
