[fedfs-utils] [PATCH 4/9] fedfsd: don't return freed memory through **pathname parameter, ...

[Chuck Lever]

From: Jim Meyering <meyering at redhat.com>

even though upon error it will not be used.
* src/fedfsd/svc.c (fedfsd_pathwalk): On an error path, don't
set *pathname at all, and certainly not to a just-freed pointer.
Spotted by coverity.

Introduced by commit 0520ee72: "Initial commit," (March 29, 2011).

Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering at redhat.com>
---

 src/fedfsd/svc.c |    6 ++++--
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/fedfsd/svc.c b/src/fedfsd/svc.c
index bbe1fa1..8ba6468 100644
--- a/src/fedfsd/svc.c
+++ b/src/fedfsd/svc.c
@@ -316,10 +316,12 @@ fedfsd_pathwalk(const FedFsPathName fpath, char **pathname)
 		xlog(D_CALL, "%s: Zero-component pathname", __func__);
 		strcat(result, "/");
 		retval = fedfsd_pathwalk_check_term(result);
-		if (retval != FEDFS_OK)
+		if (retval != FEDFS_OK) {
 			free(result);
+			return retval;
+		}
 		*pathname = result;
-		return retval;
+		return FEDFS_OK;
 	}
 
 	for (i = 0; i < fpath.FedFsPathName_len; i++) {