Hi Ola, > Sorry for my lack of understanding. But why do them memory have to be > explicitly deallocated if exit is called? In what way is that a security > issue? > > I´m asking as I have seen problems with deallocation more than once. > Especially in error handlers. Thank you for the advice. You're right: if exit is called, memory leakage is not really a problem since the operating system should handle the deallocation. However, it looks like it is not the case of proxy_init in virtio-9p-proxy.c, since the function just returns -1. But I'm not sure it's worth taking time for it... Cheers, Hugo -- Hugo Lefeuvre (hle) | www.owl.eu.com 4096/ ACB7 B67F 197F 9B32 1533 431C AC90 AC3E C524 065E
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature