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Re: [PATCH] sunrpc: xdr_bytes/xdr_string need to free buffer on error [BZ #21461]

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Date: Mon, 08 May 2017 10:39:15 +0200
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sunrpc: xdr_bytes/xdr_string need to free buffer on error [BZ #21461]
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On Mai 08 2017, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:

> +* The xdr_bytes and xdr_string routines free the internally allocated
> +  buffer if deserialization of the buffer contents fails for any reason.

Isn't it the caller's responsibility to call the XDR functions with
XDR_FREE in any case?

Andreas.

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