From fd17710ad438a0d6228e807936119ed451eb843a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 23:36:34 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 14/47] fileio: get_status_field() don't clobber arg on OOM

According to our coding style guidelines we shouldn't clobber
pass-by-ref arguments on failure, hence don't do so here either.
---
 src/basic/fileio.c | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/basic/fileio.c b/src/basic/fileio.c
index 00fb6f8..eb6f3ce 100644
--- a/src/basic/fileio.c
+++ b/src/basic/fileio.c
@@ -786,7 +786,7 @@ int executable_is_script(const char *path, char **interpreter) {
  */
 int get_status_field(const char *filename, const char *pattern, char **field) {
         _cleanup_free_ char *status = NULL;
-        char *t;
+        char *t, *f;
         size_t len;
         int r;
 
@@ -820,9 +820,10 @@ int get_status_field(const char *filename, const char *pattern, char **field) {
 
         len = strcspn(t, WHITESPACE);
 
-        *field = strndup(t, len);
-        if (!*field)
+        f = strndup(t, len);
+        if (!f)
                 return -ENOMEM;
 
+        *field = f;
         return 0;
 }
-- 
2.5.0