[libvirt] PATCH: Switch remote daemon to use memory alloc APIs

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Mon Jun 2 12:44:57 UTC 2008


On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:02:22AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 03:37:06PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > THis patch switches over the remote daemon to use the memory allocation
> > APIs. This required exporting the 4 apis in the .so.  I discovered along
> > the way that none of the remote RPC dispatcher impls checked for malloc
> > failure, so I've had to add that in too.
> 
>   Looks fine, this really cleans things up, especially reallocs
> 
> >          if (getsockname(sock->fd, (struct sockaddr *)(&sa), &salen) < 0)
> > -            return -1;
> > +            goto cleanup;
> >  
> 
>   Hum, changes the semantic but it looks like it will avoid leaking 
> file descriptors too..

Yes, that is correct - we were leaking FDs. It was a minor issue though
because the daemon will shortly exit once control returns

Regards,
Daniel
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