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[Colin King <1287109@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

I run cppcheck on kerneloops and found a few issues:

* A memory leak in writefunction()
* Various unchecked heap allocations - allocs that fail return null causing null pointer dereferencing and hence segfaults

** Affects: kerneloops (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Colin King (colin-king)
         Status: In Progress

** Changed in: kerneloops (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => In Progress

** Changed in: kerneloops (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin King (colin-king)

** Changed in: kerneloops (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

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Title:
  kernel oops suffers from memory leak and unchecked heap allocations

Status in “kerneloops” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  I run cppcheck on kerneloops and found a few issues:

  * A memory leak in writefunction()
  * Various unchecked heap allocations - allocs that fail return null causing null pointer dereferencing and hence segfaults

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