Comment 4 for bug 138887

Ian fixed this a while back, but the bug never got closed for some reason.

dpkg (1.14.5ubuntu15) gutsy; urgency=low

  * Bugfixes to fd cleanup handling:
    - avoid closing fsys tarfile pipe twice even in normal
      operation - normally EBADF but might sometimes close some other
      desired fd and cause hideous doom. (LP: #137191.)
    - avoid duplicate attempts to [f]close in obscure error
      situations which might conceiveably close wrong fds
    - cast &fd to void* when passing to push_cleanup cu_closefd
    - fix parse.c:parsedb to use ehflag_normaltidy in a sane way
    - when passing &fd to push_cleanup cu_closefd, make fd always static
  * Bugfix in trigger deferred file processing: reset lexer start state
    when calling yyrestart (has no effect except after parsing/reading
    errors in the deferred file).
  * Fix some error handling bugs in tarfn.c:
    - Avoid freeing uninitialised h.[Link]Name (can cause crash if .deb
      becomes unreadable while we start up). (LP: #138887.)
    - Use m_malloc instead of malloc (and ditch ad-hoc error handling).

 -- Ian Jackson <email address hidden> Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:12:20 +0100