Re: [PATCH] webservices: free the potentially allocated pointer (Coverity)

[Hans Leidekker]

On Sat, 2016-12-17 at 12:48 +0100, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> 1374356 Resource leak
> Signed-off-by: Marcus Meissner
>
> dlls/webservices/reader.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/dlls/webservices/reader.c b/dlls/webservices/reader.c
> index d67c47a701..219683b2af 100644
> --- a/dlls/webservices/reader.c
> +++ b/dlls/webservices/reader.c
> @@ -4701,15 +4701,33 @@ static ULONG get_field_size( const WS_FIELD_DESCRIPTION *desc )
>
> static HRESULT read_param( struct reader *reader, const WS_FIELD_DESCRIPTION *desc, WS_HEAP *heap, void *ret )
>  {
> - if (!ret && !(ret = ws_alloc_zero( heap, get_field_size(desc) ))) return WS_E_QUOTA_EXCEEDED;
> - return read_type_struct_field( reader, desc, heap, ret, 0 );
> - HRESULT hr;
> - VOID    *xret = NULL;
> -
> - if (!ret)
> - {
> -
>    if (!(xret = ws_alloc_zero( heap, get_field_size(desc) ))) return WS_E_QUOTA_EXCEEDED;
> -
>    ret = xret;
> - }
> - hr = read_type_struct_field( reader, desc, heap, ret, 0 );
> - ws_free( heap, xret);
> - return hr;
>
> }

It's not a leak. The memory is allocated on the heap passed to this function and it will
be released when the heap is destroyed. I guess Coverity doesn't see that.