[LTP] [PATCH v3 3/3] syscalls/ioctl_ns0[156]: align stack and wait for child

Jan Stancek jstancek@redhat.com
Sun Jun 16 09:34:02 CEST 2019



----- Original Message -----
> Hi!
> > > If I remember correctly at some point we decided to clean up after tests
> > > properly so that we don't upset various debugging tools, i.e. coverity,
> > > valgrind, etc. and I think that you were part of that discussion.
> > 
> > I recall I started with that position (free all), and I thought you
> > turned me around after this many years :-).
> 
> Well I didn't care that much, but I guess that I lean slightly to free
> the memory :-).

OK, so should I repost or is this good to go with free added to cleanup?

> 
> > Do we have anything about this in style guide? I only found brief mention
> > in "don't call cleanup from setup" section, which isn't even possible with
> > newlib.
> 
> I don't think so. I guess that we should write something down, once we
> decide what is the prefered option.
> 
> > ...
> > You don't need to clean up the following:
> >                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
> >  * +malloc(3)+'ed memory.
> >  * Read-only file descriptors in persistent paths (i.e. not
> >    temporary directories).
> 
> Looks like this is terribly outdated, at least I tend to tell people to
> close all filedescriptors to make things simpler.
> 
> --
> Cyril Hrubis
> chrubis@suse.cz
> 


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