Fix a bug in Cvar_RegisterVirtual which was corrupting memory when adding a second...

[xonotic/darkplaces.git] / cvar.c

diff --git a/cvar.c b/cvar.c
index cbe8b0f6b56205446f0da1c285de48c6c25fcd74..7936c92356be359c13748eca7afbec3250df8ac2 100644 (file)
--- a/cvar.c
+++ b/cvar.c
@@ -517,17 +517,12 @@ void Cvar_RegisterVirtual(cvar_t *variable, const char *name )
                return;
        }
 
-       if(!variable->aliases)
-               variable->aliases = (char **)Z_Malloc(sizeof(char *) * 2); // For NULL terminator
-       else
-               variable->aliases = (char **)Mem_Realloc(zonemempool, variable->aliases, sizeof(char *) * (variable->aliases_size + 1));
-       
-       variable->aliases[variable->aliases_size + 1] = NULL;
-       
-       // Add to it
-       variable->aliases[variable->aliases_size] = (char *)Z_Malloc(strlen(name) + 1);
-       memcpy(variable->aliases[variable->aliases_size], name, strlen(name) + 1);
-       variable->aliases_size++;
+       // Resize the variable->aliases list to have room for another entry and a null terminator.
+       // This zero-pads when resizing, so we don't need to write the NULL terminator manually here.
+       // Also if aliases is NULL this allocates fresh for the correct size, so it's fine to just do this.
+       variable->aliases = (char **)Z_Realloc(variable->aliases, sizeof(char *) * (variable->aliases_size + 2));
+       // Add the new alias, and increment the number of aliases in the list
+       variable->aliases[variable->aliases_size++] = (char *)Z_strdup(name);
 
        // link to head of list in this hash table index
        hash = (cvar_hash_t *)Z_Malloc(sizeof(cvar_hash_t));