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| author | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2008-05-20 17:58:42 +0200 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2008-05-20 21:35:40 +0200 |
| commit | 3ceabe1bfcb5c5fc5802d6c2b04918e3586dd989 (patch) | |
| tree | 6c8400508aa2f41f77e2675161c0fa0f472bdad3 /src | |
| parent | 5e6a1837ea1d2f6670f132fb8661bb25b1b3693d (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-3ceabe1bfcb5c5fc5802d6c2b04918e3586dd989.tar.xz | |
install: avoid a leak in currently-ifdef'd-out code
* src/install.c (setdefaultfilecon)
[ENABLE_WHEN_MATCHPATHCON_IS_MORE_EFFICIENT]:
Call matchpathcon_init_prefix only once.
Suggestion from Stephen Smalley. Reported by Ben Webb in
<http://bugzilla.redhat.com/447410>.
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/install.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/install.c b/src/install.c index 1d04373b1..13feb850e 100644 --- a/src/install.c +++ b/src/install.c @@ -208,6 +208,8 @@ setdefaultfilecon (char const *file) { struct stat st; security_context_t scontext = NULL; + static bool first_call = true; + if (selinux_enabled != 1) { /* Indicate no context found. */ @@ -216,11 +218,15 @@ setdefaultfilecon (char const *file) if (lstat (file, &st) != 0) return; - if (IS_ABSOLUTE_FILE_NAME (file)) + if (first_call && IS_ABSOLUTE_FILE_NAME (file)) { /* Calling matchpathcon_init_prefix (NULL, "/first_component/") is an optimization to minimize the expense of the following - matchpathcon call. */ + matchpathcon call. Do it only once, just before the first + matchpathcon call. We *could* call matchpathcon_fini after + the final matchpathcon call, but that's not necessary, since + by then we're about to exit, and besides, the buffers it + would free are still reachable. */ char const *p0; char const *p = file + 1; while (ISSLASH (*p)) @@ -247,6 +253,7 @@ setdefaultfilecon (char const *file) } } } + first_call = false; /* If there's an error determining the context, or it has none, return to allow default context */ |