Re: [Freeipmi-devel] bmc-config: PEF config checkout

[Anand Babu]

On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 08:59:57AM -0700, Al Chu wrote:
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| > - Several *_commit functions in bmc-sol-conf-section.c used to
| >    free the kv->value before actually parsing it, resulting in
| >    the actual parameter being set to 0.
| 
| ARGH!  This code worked on another machine.  I suppose the
| randomness of the compile/memory usage would allow the value read
| from the invalid pointer to still be correct for other machines.
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Memory de-allocation routines usually don't take extra effort to
destroy the content. They just de-reference the pointer. 

In this case, because the free'd pointer is referenced immediately, it
never faulted. Compilers usually can't see these bugs. 

I will use some memory debuggers to catch such errors and report soon.

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