Ok, thanks for the suggestion. There's currently only one path to get at the 
free(tmpStats), but for safety I'll change it.

Robbert

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Burton M. Strauss III
> Verzonden: donderdag 24 juni 2004 15:06
> Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Onderwerp: RE: [Ntop-dev] [PATCH] Fix memory leak in RRDplugin
> domainstats
> 
> 
> Just as a general rule, code those as
> 
> if(xxx != NULL) free(xxx);
> 
> That way, whatever path it takes to get there is safe.
> 
> -----Burton
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Behalf Of Kouprie, Robbert
> > Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 7:27 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [Ntop-dev] [PATCH] Fix memory leak in RRDplugin domainstats
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> >  
> > In my last patch to introduce graceful handling of OOM in 
> > RRDplugin's domainstats routine, I introduced a possible memory 
> > leak. The only situation in which this would occur is when the 
> > box was OOM anyway, but that shouldn't keep ntop from freeing 
> > unused memory.
> >  
> > Robbert
> >  
> > --- ntop/plugins/rrdPlugin.c.orig       2004-06-24 
> > 14:11:09.902811680 +0200
> > +++ ntop/plugins/rrdPlugin.c    2004-06-24 14:15:06.339867784 +0200
> > @@ -1874,7 +1874,9 @@
> >         stats = (DomainStats**)mallocAndInitWithReportWarn(len, 
> > "rrdMainLoop(2)");
> >  
> >         if (stats == NULL) {
> > -          traceEvent(CONST_TRACE_WARNING, "RRD: Out of memory, 
> > skipping domain RRD dumps");
> > +         traceEvent(CONST_TRACE_WARNING, "RRD: Out of memory, 
> > skipping domain RRD dumps");
> > +         /* before continuing, also free the block of memory 
> > allocated a few lines up */
> > +         free(tmpStats);
> >           continue;
> >         }
> > 
> > 
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