On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 09:52:27 +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
If no board was detected then VIR_REALLOC_N() done at the end of
the function will actually free the memory (because nborads ==
0), but @boards will be set to a non-NULL pointer. This makes it
unnecessary harder for a caller to see if any board was detected.
Ah, yeah. Allocating 0 bytes of memory may get you a pointer.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn(a)redhat.com>
---
src/util/virsysinfo.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/util/virsysinfo.c b/src/util/virsysinfo.c
index 9e60d1a553..6c3adc23ab 100644
--- a/src/util/virsysinfo.c
+++ b/src/util/virsysinfo.c
@@ -844,8 +844,12 @@ virSysinfoParseX86BaseBoard(const char *base,
nboards--;
}
- /* This is safe, as we can be only shrinking the memory */
- ignore_value(VIR_REALLOC_N(boards, nboards));
+ if (nboards == 0) {
+ VIR_FREE(boards);
ACK