Fix: lttng-ctl: lttng_list_sessions: initialize out_sessions to NULL when returning 0
authorMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Tue, 11 Jan 2022 18:59:15 +0000 (13:59 -0500)
committerJérémie Galarneau <jeremie.galarneau@efficios.com>
Tue, 25 Jan 2022 22:34:44 +0000 (17:34 -0500)
commit21c5a2331cdefbf6316f2ad9cb648061bde47c8e
treefa4649d9e69b9d6eeceb1468829b02a1bb75c5fc
parent7356d3fafb558af9d4dcedcceed9179168211884
Fix: lttng-ctl: lttng_list_sessions: initialize out_sessions to NULL when returning 0

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
src/lib/lttng-ctl/lttng-ctl.c
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