[dm-devel] [PATCH] libmultipath: fix memory API logic error

[Xose Vazquez Perez]

tang.junhui wrote:

> Memroy API use mem_allocated to record the total size of used memory,
> however, it's wrong to use size(p) as the length of freed memory in xfree(),
> and memory may also be allocated by STRDUP() or REALLOC(), which is
> not calculated into mem_allocated, so the total size of used memory is
> not correctly. For these reasons, we removed these incorrectly code to keep
> the code clean.

>  libmpathpersist/mpath_updatepr.c |  1 -
>  libmultipath/memory.c            | 31 -------------------------------
>  libmultipath/memory.h            | 13 ++-----------

libmultipath/memory.[ch] files along with libmultipath/parser.[ch] and
libmultipath/vector.[ch] come from keepalived/lib/ [1] .

Maybe it's worth to backport their fixes and new features.


[1] https://github.com/acassen/keepalived