[libvirt] [PATCH 2/8] Fix memory leak in logging setup

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu Dec 2 12:47:25 UTC 2010


On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 12:21:51PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 12/01/2010 10:26 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > The logging setup requires const char * strings, but the
> > virLogSetFromEnv() strdup's the env variables, thus causing
> > a memory leak
> > 
> > * src/util/logging.c: Avoid strdup'ing env variables
> > ---
> >  src/util/logging.c |    4 ++--
> >  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/src/util/logging.c b/src/util/logging.c
> > index d65dec0..83cc358 100644
> > --- a/src/util/logging.c
> > +++ b/src/util/logging.c
> > @@ -980,8 +980,8 @@ void virLogSetFromEnv(void) {
> >          virLogParseDefaultPriority(debugEnv);
> >      debugEnv = getenv("LIBVIRT_LOG_FILTERS");
> >      if (debugEnv && *debugEnv)
> > -        virLogParseFilters(strdup(debugEnv));
> > +        virLogParseFilters(debugEnv);
> 
> ACK; independently useful to push now, even if the rest of your series
> is not ready for prime time.

Yep, pushed that

Daniel




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