[libvirt] leak? xenUnifiedOpen

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Mon Jul 21 09:27:45 UTC 2008


On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 04:52:24AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 10:49:39PM +0200, Stefan de Konink wrote:
> > ==5486== 184 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 5 of 18
> > ==5486==    at 0x4C20111: calloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:397)
> > ==5486==    by 0x4E3ADFD: __virAlloc (memory.c:100)
> > ==5486==    by 0x4E4AF21: xenUnifiedOpen (xen_unified.c:264)
> > ==5486==    by 0x4E3A005: do_open (libvirt.c:777)
> > ==5486==    by 0x4009D7: main (in 
> > /home/skinkie/development/htdocs/cherokee/experiment)
> > 
> > 
> > Maybe valgrind is over active, because I see the free code at the close 
> > connection, and my own code is closing it...
> 
>   I can see a possibility, for example if xenUnifiedOpen is called
> multipl time on the same connection but the first time it exits on
> line 332 of xenUnifiedOpen(). That error exit leaves the routine
> without deallocating the priv block and conn->privateData is not
> set back to NULL.

Yes, we definitely need to free the 'priv' data  on line 332.

Daniel
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