Bug 20063

Summary:	XKeysymToString can leak memory
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Kimmo Hämäläinen <kimmo.hamalainen>
Component:	Lib/Xlib	Assignee:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	git
Hardware:	ARM
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Kimmo Hämäläinen 2009-02-11 06:57:20 UTC

According to the man page about XKeysymToString "The returned string is in a static area and must not be modified."  But:

<kuzak> it uses malloc() and it's leaked
<kuzak> so is it a bug in xlib?
<daniels> yeah
<daniels> if the lookup succeeds, then you're safe because it returns a pointer into the xrm area
<daniels> if the lookup fails and it just returns a unicode code, then it mallocs

Comment 1 Julien Cristau 2009-02-17 06:33:22 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 7100 ***

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