[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: Fix a memory leak in qemudExtractTTYPath

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Mon Jan 11 11:14:42 UTC 2010


On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 09:26:11PM +0100, Matthias Bolte wrote:
> qemudWaitForMonitor calls qemudReadLogOutput with qemudFindCharDevicePTYs
> as callback. qemudFindCharDevicePTYs calls qemudExtractTTYPath to assign
> a string to chr->data.file.path. Afterwards qemudWaitForMonitor may call
> qemudFindCharDevicePTYsMonitor that overwrites chr->data.file.path without
> freeing the old value. This results in leaking the memory allocated by
> qemudExtractTTYPath.
> 
> Report an OOM error if the strdup in qemudFindCharDevicePTYsMonitor fails.
> ---
>  src/qemu/qemu_driver.c |    6 ++++++
>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
> index daa6f94..8817565 100644
> --- a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
> +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
> @@ -1433,7 +1433,13 @@ qemudFindCharDevicePTYsMonitor(virConnectPtr conn,
>                  return -1;                                                \
>              }                                                             \
>                                                                            \
> +            VIR_FREE(chr->data.file.path);                                \
>              chr->data.file.path = strdup(path);                           \
> +                                                                          \
> +            if (chr->data.file.path == NULL) {                            \
> +                virReportOOMError(conn);                                  \
> +                return -1;                                                \
> +            }                                                             \
>          }                                                                 \
>      }
>  
> -- 

ACK

Daniel
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