Observed issue
==============
Users of lttng-ctl API's lttng_list_sessions observe application crash
when freeing the *out_sessions output value when lttng_list_sessions
returns 0.
Cause
=====
The implementation does not set *out_sessions to NULL when
lttng_ctl_ask_sessiond() sets the sessions variable to NULL.
This causes the user application to attempt to free(3) an uninitialized
pointer.
Solution
========
Initialize out_sessions to NULL before invoking
lttng_ctl_ask_sessiond(), so it is initialized when lttng_list_sessions
returns 0, thus allowing *out_sessions to be subsequently freed.
A free(3) on a NULL pointer is a no-op.
Known drawbacks
===============
None.
History
=======
This was introduced by those two commits:
b178f53e90 ("Generate session name and default output on sessiond's end")
27ea4ba825 ("Fix: error when listing sessions with no session")
This is a regression present in the stable-2.11, stable-2.12,
stable-2.13, and master branches.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Jérémie Galarneau <jeremie.galarneau@efficios.com>
Change-Id: I34125d708a32674d79b831e5004c48321ebd711e