From: Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 14:57:05 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: changes file for big free macro-ization branch
X-Git-Tag: tor-0.3.3.1-alpha~146^2~5
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5508ee29d56c948efc7a07747e37cc27538e17a8;p=thirdparty%2Ftor.git

changes file for big free macro-ization branch
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diff --git a/changes/bug24337 b/changes/bug24337
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+  o Minor features (defensive programming):
+    - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
+      with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding pointers
+      to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of dangling
+      pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
+
+    - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input once.
+      Part of ticket 24337.