kernel oops suffers from memory leak and unchecked heap allocations
Bug #1287109 reported by
Colin Ian King
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| kerneloops (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Colin Ian King | ||
Bug Description
I run cppcheck on kerneloops and found a few issues:
* A memory leak in writefunction()
* Various unchecked heap allocations - allocs that fail return null causing null pointer dereferencing and hence segfaults
| Changed in kerneloops (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → In Progress |
| assignee: | nobody → Colin King (colin-king) |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Revision history for this message
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in kerneloops (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
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This bug was fixed in the package kerneloops - 0.12+git2009021
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kerneloops (0.12+git200902
[ Colin King ]
* fix memleak and add alloc null pointer checks (LP: #1287109)
- memleak of buffer c in writefunction()
- null pointer checks in extract_oops() and scan_dmesg() (LP: #1026251)
[ Brian Murray ]
* fix null pointer check in fill_lineinfo() (LP: #1026300)
-- Brian Murray <email address hidden> Wed, 05 Mar 2014 08:58:57 -0800