Merge pull request #2399 from 2xsec/bugfix

coverity: #1436916

diff --git a/src/lxc/tools/lxc_unshare.c b/src/lxc/tools/lxc_unshare.c
index eb69068afda787251f18ca74e050fed07942bd2e..699823bff7d1ed84f0a09c6a21509096775481bd 100644 (file)
--- a/src/lxc/tools/lxc_unshare.c
+++ b/src/lxc/tools/lxc_unshare.c
@@ -101,8 +101,10 @@ static bool lookup_user(const char *optarg, uid_t *uid)
 
        if (sscanf(optarg, "%u", uid) < 1) {
                /* not a uid -- perhaps a username */
-               if (sscanf(optarg, "%s", name) < 1)
+               if (sscanf(optarg, "%s", name) < 1) {
+                       free(buf);
                        return false;
+               }
 
                ret = getpwnam_r(name, &pwent, buf, bufsize, &pwentp);
                if (!pwentp) {