[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 72017] [EFL] Add NULL checks after memory allocation

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72017





--- Comment #10 from Raphael Kubo da Costa <kubo at profusion.mobi>  2011-12-06 08:02:50 PST ---
(In reply to comment #9)
> (In reply to comment #8)
> > > Source/WebKit/efl/ewk/ewk_cookies.cpp:104
> > > +        } else
> > > +            CRITICAL("Could not allocate Ewk_Cookie.");
> > 
> > I still wonder if this is really needed. Assuming the hypothetical case in which malloc fails in the middle of the loop, you nonetheless continue trying to allocate other Ewk_Cookies to add them to the list and then return. I don't think this helps the caller all that much.
> 
> Do you prefer to stop loop in case of malloc failure and destroy (by free()) allocated memory?

Well, I'm generally against the idea of checking all those allocations :) You will end up doing a lot more work for a hypothetical situation in which you are already pretty much screwed up.

> A similar solution in used in ewk_frame_source_get().

Sorry, I couldn't find similar code in that function.

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