[PATCH] libbb: don't ignore result of xrealloc

[Daniel Glöckner]

On 05/15/2009 05:57 PM, Daniel Glöckner wrote:
> Even on single byte expansions the pointer may change.

Sorry, I didn't really read the surrounding code. It's actually trying to shrink
the memory block. According to glibc's info page realloc guarantees the same
address only if the size stays the same.

Anyway, on one of our systems using uClibc this bug caused lsmod to SIGSEGV.

  Daniel

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