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Bug 878001

Summary: NULL dereferencing and memory leaks
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Ondrej Oprala <ooprala>
Component: irqbalanceAssignee: Petr Holasek <pholasek>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Evan McNabb <emcnabb>
Severity: unspecified Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 6.4CC: ccui, dhoward, ovasik
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Fixed In Version: irqbalance-1.0.4-10.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2014-10-14 07:10:21 UTC Type: Bug
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List of all defects added in irqbalance-1.0.4-3.el6 none

Description Ondrej Oprala 2012-11-19 12:21:53 UTC
Created attachment 647713 [details]
List of all defects added in irqbalance-1.0.4-3.el6

Description of problem:
/builddir/build/BUILD/irqbalance-1.0.4/classify.c:419: dereference: Dereferencing a null pointer "entry".

/builddir/build/BUILD/irqbalance-1.0.4/numa.c:67: dereference: Dereferencing a pointer that might be null "f" when calling "ferror(FILE *)".

/builddir/build/BUILD/irqbalance-1.0.4/classify.c:378: leaked_storage: Variable "new" going out of scope leaks the storage it points to.

/builddir/build/BUILD/irqbalance-1.0.4/classify.c:378: leaked_storage: Variable "nnew" going out of scope leaks the storage it points to.

Additional info:
The first two cases are just unchecked return values. The other two cause memory leaks in the very rare case, when only one of the callocs would fail. However, looking at the code, add_new_irq returns NULL in this case, which then isn't checked and the NULL pointer is dereferenced several lines after.

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2012-12-14 08:10:50 UTC
This request was not resolved in time for the current release.
Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if still desired, for consideration in
the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Comment 6 Evan McNabb 2014-07-11 18:10:17 UTC
Confirmed Covscan on irqbalance-1.0.4-10.el6 now fixes these issues:

http://cov01.lab.eng.brq.redhat.com/covscanhub/waiving/5532/15016/

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-14 07:10:21 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2014-1504.html