[Libvir] [PATCH] Plug skipped-qemudCleanup leak.
Jim Meyering
jim at meyering.net
Mon Mar 3 13:07:07 UTC 2008
Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 01:34:34PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> And another:
>>
>> Plug skipped-qemudCleanup leak.
>> * qemud/qemud.c (main): Call qemudCleanup also upon failure.
>> Otherwise, an error return would skip it and induce leaks.
>>
> [...]
>> @@ -2166,8 +2166,6 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
>>
>> qemudRunLoop(server);
>>
>> - qemudCleanup(server);
>> -
>> close(sigwrite);
>>
>> if (godaemon)
>> @@ -2181,6 +2179,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
>> unlink (pid_file);
>>
>> error1:
>> + qemudCleanup(server);
>> return ret;
>> }
>
> Well one could argue that since return on main() is an exit,
> which will reclaim the memory it's not really a leak :-) but it's
> cleaner that way.
Of course, but for the record, this change does fix some "real" leaks,
aka, "definitely leaked", as reported by valgrind.
Otherwise I wouldn't have bothered.
There are plenty of pseudo-leaks like what you're talking about,
but "fixing" them is often counter-productive.
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