Re: [PATCH] Free the results of scandir()

[Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>]

On Mon,  6 Feb 2012 17:02:49 -0500, Ethan Glasser-Camp <glasse@cs.rpi.edu> wrote:
> From: Ethan Glasser-Camp <ethan@betacantrips.com>
> 
> scandir() returns "strings allocated via malloc(3)" which are then
> "collected in array namelist which is allocated via
> malloc(3)". Currently we just free the array namelist. Instead, free
> all the entries of namelist, and then free namelist.
> 
> entry only points to elements of namelist, so we don't free it
> separately.
> ---
> 
> This should fix a minor memory leak in notmuch-new. Please confirm I'm
> reading the manpage correctly ;)

It looks right, good catch! Please do also fix the other scandir() usage
in count_files().

BR,
Jani.


> 
>  notmuch-new.c |    8 +++++---
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/notmuch-new.c b/notmuch-new.c
> index a569a54..c536873 100644
> --- a/notmuch-new.c
> +++ b/notmuch-new.c
> @@ -559,12 +559,14 @@ add_files_recursive (notmuch_database_t *notmuch,
>    DONE:
>      if (next)
>  	talloc_free (next);
> -    if (entry)
> -	free (entry);
>      if (dir)
>  	closedir (dir);
> -    if (fs_entries)
> +    if (fs_entries){
> +	for (i = 0; i < num_fs_entries; i++){
> +	    free (fs_entries[i]);
> +	}
>  	free (fs_entries);
> +    }
>      if (db_subdirs)
>  	notmuch_filenames_destroy (db_subdirs);
>      if (db_files)
> -- 
> 1.7.5.4
> 
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