From: Andreas Schwab Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 18:44:37 GMT Subject: Re: CPPCheck found 24 high risk bugs in Git v.1.8.3.4 Message-ID: <87eh9op5gq.fsf@igel.home> In-Reply-To: Erik Faye-Lund writes: > diff --git a/compat/win32/syslog.c b/compat/win32/syslog.c > index d015e43..0641f4e 100644 > --- a/compat/win32/syslog.c > +++ b/compat/win32/syslog.c > @@ -43,11 +43,14 @@ void syslog(int priority, const char *fmt, ...) > va_end(ap); > > while ((pos = strstr(str, "%1")) != NULL) { > - str = realloc(str, ++str_len + 1); > - if (!str) { > + char *tmp = realloc(str, ++str_len + 1); > + if (!tmp) { > warning("realloc failed: '%s'", strerror(errno)); > + free(str); > return; > } > + pos = tmp + (pos - str); Pedantically, this is undefined (uses of both pos and str may trap after realloc has freed the original pointer), it is better to calculate the difference before calling realloc. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."