[libvirt] [PATCH] Fix activeDomainList handling

Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net
Wed Jan 14 19:19:58 UTC 2009


john.levon at sun.com wrote:
> Fix activeDomainList handling

In your eventual ChangeLog entry, please
mention xsWatchList, too.

> It must be NULLed out after free()ing.
>
> Signed-off-by: John Levon <john.levon at sun.com>
>
> diff --git a/src/xs_internal.c b/src/xs_internal.c
> --- a/src/xs_internal.c
> +++ b/src/xs_internal.c
> @@ -388,8 +388,10 @@ xenStoreClose(virConnectPtr conn)
>      }
>
>      xenStoreWatchListFree(priv->xsWatchList);
> +    priv->xsWatchList = NULL;
>  #ifndef PROXY
>      xenUnifiedDomainInfoListFree(activeDomainList);
> +    activeDomainList = NULL;
>  #endif
>      if (priv->xshandle == NULL)
>          return(-1);

Definitely good fixes.
Otherwise we'd end up dereferencing freed pointers.
However these conflict with Dan's recent changes,
so you should wait to hear from him.




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