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-Url: http://git.efficios.com/?p=lttng-tools.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=12c5f50afddfc4f620542860ac4a402b1884a022

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 55e0ad3d7..e271640db 100644
--- a/src/bin/lttng-sessiond/main.c
+++ b/src/bin/lttng-sessiond/main.c
@@ -791,7 +791,7 @@ 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));
@@ -815,6 +815,7 @@ 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);
@@ -860,6 +861,7 @@ static int set_options(int argc, char **argv)
 	}
 
 end:
+	free(config_path);
 	free(optstring);
 	return ret;
 }