[ovs-dev] [coverity 02/14] leak-checker: Fix warning about use after free in hook_free().

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Tue Feb 22 17:30:09 UTC 2011


On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 05:44:45PM -0800, Justin Pettit wrote:
> Coverity complains of a use after free error in hook_free().  Since this
> is only printing the pointer address it should be fine, but at the very
> least it looks odd.
> 
> Coverity #11069

Applying this patch will break the leak checker, since the "free" has to
occur with the libc implementation of free().  Otherwise free() will
call back into hook_free() and we'll just get an infinite loop (that
terminates when we run out of stack space).




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