[libvirt] PATCH: 15/28: Reduce return points for storage driver
Jim Meyering
jim at meyering.net
Tue Dec 2 14:02:17 UTC 2008
"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> This patch reduces the number of return points in the storage driver
> methods
...
> diff --git a/src/storage_driver.c b/src/storage_driver.c
...
> @@ -893,7 +924,7 @@ storagePoolListVolumes(virStoragePoolPtr
>
> cleanup:
> for (n = 0 ; n < maxnames ; n++)
> - VIR_FREE(names[i]);
> + VIR_FREE(names[n]);
>
> memset(names, 0, maxnames);
> return -1;
This might be worth putting in a separate bug-fix patch.
At first I thought this was fixing a serious bug,
but you can see that i is always smaller than maxnames,
so the fix is just plugging a leak.
However, in looking at this I spotted a real problem:
There are numerous statements like this:
memset(names, 0, maxnames);
That zeros out only 1/4 or 1/8 of the memory it should.
It should be doing this:
memset(names, 0, maxnames * sizeof (*names));
These bugs are independent of your 28-part patch, Dan,
i.e., also on the trunk:
$ git grep memset.names|grep -v sizeof
src/storage_driver.c: memset(names, 0, nnames);
src/storage_driver.c: memset(names, 0, nnames);
src/storage_driver.c: memset(names, 0, maxnames);
src/storage_driver.c: memset(names, 0, maxnames);
src/test.c: memset(names, 0, maxnames);
src/test.c: memset(names, 0, maxnames);
I'll post the fix (relative to the trunk) separately.
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