[libvirt] PATCH: Fix some more memory leaks

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu May 22 11:39:18 UTC 2008


On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:13:31AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> > While testing Cole's series of patches I identified a couple more places
> > where we leak memory.
> >
> > In libvirt.c, the default authentication callback uses uninitialized
> > data, and indeed strdup()'s it and this is then never released. This
> > simply disables that bit of code.
> >
> > In qparams.c when free'ing the struct the 'p' struct field was not
> > released. I took the opportunity to switch it over to using the new
> > style memory.h functions
> >
> > In remote.c there were  a couple of handlers which forgot to free the
> > virDomainPtr object when they were done.
> >
> >  qemud/remote.c |   18 ++++++++++++++----
> >  src/libvirt.c  |   16 +++++++++-------
> >  src/qparams.c  |   31 +++++++++++++------------------
> >  3 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
> 
> Looks good.
> I suppose the tests that exposed the leaks aren't yet run
> as part of "make check".  It'd be nice...

I've got another patching in works for that, to fully validate OOM
handling, and test qparams completely.

Dan.
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