Open Bug 1279542 Opened 8 years ago Updated 2 years ago

(coverity) resource leak: mailnews/mime/src/mimei.cpp: |hdrs| is not released on early error return.

Categories

(MailNews Core :: MIME, defect)

Product:
MailNews Core
Component:
MIME
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

People

(Reporter: ishikawa, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug,
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Details

(Keywords: coverity, Whiteboard: CID 1137487) 

Coverity found this:


   5. Condition clazz->initialize, taking false branch
234  NS_ASSERTION(clazz->initialize && clazz->finalize, "1.1 <rhp@netscape.com> 19 Mar 1999 12:00");
235
   6. Condition hdrs, taking true branch
236  if (hdrs)
237  {
   7. alloc_fn: Storage is returned from allocation function MimeHeaders_copy. [show details]
   8. var_assign: Assigning: hdrs = storage returned from MimeHeaders_copy(hdrs).
238    hdrs = MimeHeaders_copy (hdrs);
   9. Condition !hdrs, taking false branch
239    if (!hdrs) return 0;
240  }
241
242  object = (MimeObject *) PR_MALLOC(size);
   10. Condition !object, taking true branch
   CID 1137487 (#1 of 1): Resource leak (RESOURCE_LEAK)11. leaked_storage: Returning without freeing hdrs leaks the storage that it points to.
243  if (!object) return 0;
244

Observation:
Trying to release memory objects allocated within MimeHeaders_copy (hdrs) seems to be tricky because a tree has been created within.
I think it is easier to call MimeHeaders_copy() AFTER |object| is successfully allocated.
Then there is no need for freeing |hdrs| in this function.
Severity: normal → S3
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