Avoid potential memory leak.

[u/mdw/putty] / unix / uxnet.c

diff --git a/unix/uxnet.c b/unix/uxnet.c
index 896f473..e4e07b0 100644 (file)
--- a/unix/uxnet.c
+++ b/unix/uxnet.c
@@ -106,10 +106,7 @@ void sk_cleanup(void)
 
 char *error_string(int error)
 {
-    char *ret = smalloc(strlen(strerror(error)) +
-                       strlen("Network error: "));
-    sprintf(ret, "Network error: %s",strerror(error));
-    return ret;
+    return strerror(error);
 }
 
 SockAddr sk_namelookup(char *host, char **canonicalname)