From: Jérémie Galarneau <jeremie.galarneau@efficios.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2021 18:47:14 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Fix: sessiond: leak of config_path on duplicate --config option
X-Git-Tag: v2.11.7~1
X-Git-Url: https://git.lttng.org./?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3b7acd378075874ea852b0c63aa468e8c4fd1cec;p=lttng-tools.git

Fix: sessiond: leak of config_path on duplicate --config option

1452207 Resource leak

The system resource will not be reclaimed and reused, reducing the
future availability of the resource.

CID 1452373 (#3 of 3): Resource leak (RESOURCE_LEAK)
26. overwrite_var: Overwriting config_path in config_path =
utils_expand_path(optarg) leaks the storage that config_path points to.

Reported-by: Coverity Scan
Signed-off-by: Jérémie Galarneau <jeremie.galarneau@efficios.com>
Change-Id: I70eff0f4de5ac9b84b699e88232669259eab54db
---

diff --git a/src/bin/lttng-sessiond/main.c b/src/bin/lttng-sessiond/main.c
index db70a7cda..aec2af425 100644
--- a/src/bin/lttng-sessiond/main.c
+++ b/src/bin/lttng-sessiond/main.c
@@ -797,7 +797,7 @@ static int set_options(int argc, char **argv)
 	int ret = 0, c = 0, option_index = 0;
 	int orig_optopt = optopt, orig_optind = optind;
 	char *optstring;
-	const char *config_path = NULL;
+	char *config_path = NULL;
 
 	optstring = utils_generate_optstring(long_options,
 			sizeof(long_options) / sizeof(struct option));
@@ -821,6 +821,7 @@ static int set_options(int argc, char **argv)
 			WARN("Getting '%s' argument from setuid/setgid binary refused for security reasons.",
 				"-f, --config");
 		} else {
+			free(config_path);
 			config_path = utils_expand_path(optarg);
 			if (!config_path) {
 				ERR("Failed to resolve path: %s", optarg);
@@ -866,6 +867,7 @@ static int set_options(int argc, char **argv)
 	}
 
 end:
+	free(config_path);
 	free(optstring);
 	return ret;
 }