nvme: sanitize call to strerror()#3078
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Valgrind revealed a mem leak while running nvme list-subsys -vv: ==2486== 18 bytes in 1 blocks are still reachable in loss record 1 of 1 ==2486== at 0x4841984: malloc (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so) ==2486== by 0x4956037: __vasprintf_internal (in /lib64/libc.so.6) ==2486== by 0x49F73AE: __asprintf_chk (in /lib64/libc.so.6) ==2486== by 0x49796FB: strerror_l (in /lib64/libc.so.6) ==2486== by 0x488A4AF: nvme_scan_topology (tree.c:317) ==2486== by 0x42E3BC: list_subsys (nvme.c:3499) ==2486== by 0x445F88: handle_plugin (plugin.c:190) ==2486== by 0x407620: main (nvme.c:11119) Fix this by ensuring an appropriate value is passed to strerror(). Signed-off-by: Martin George <[email protected]>
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Passing a negative int to strerror() may lead to undefined behavior and also result in a mem leak. Fix this by ensuring an appropriate value is passed instead. Signed-off-by: Martin George <[email protected]>
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Avoid passing a negative int to strerror() for cleaner handling.