From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 17:49:50 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: [BZ #2998]
X-Git-Tag: upstream/2.30~15419
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9a5288841e99925426b7967ffade7c5ca5a874f4;p=external%2Fglibc.git

[BZ #2998]

2006-08-03  Eric Blake
<ebb9@byu.net>

	[BZ #2998]
	* misc/error.c (error_tail) [_LIBC]: Avoid invalid free.
---

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index a356c15..68faa19 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2006-08-03  Eric Blake	<ebb9@byu.net>
+
+	[BZ #2998]
+	* misc/error.c (error_tail) [_LIBC]: Avoid invalid free.
+
 2006-08-09  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@redhat.com>
 
 	* malloc/memusagestat.c: Silence warnings.
diff --git a/misc/error.c b/misc/error.c
index 66a8ccb..459110c 100644
--- a/misc/error.c
+++ b/misc/error.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /* Error handler for noninteractive utilities
-   Copyright (C) 1990-1998, 2000-2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   Copyright (C) 1990-1998, 2000-2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    This file is part of the GNU C Library.
 
    The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
@@ -224,7 +224,10 @@ error_tail (int status, int errnum, const char *message, va_list args)
 	{
 	  /* The string cannot be converted.  */
 	  if (use_malloc)
-	    free (wmessage);
+	    {
+	      free (wmessage);
+	      use_malloc = false;
+	    }
 	  wmessage = (wchar_t *) L"???";
 	}