[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu_monitor_json.c: avoid many unconditional leaks

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Wed Jan 27 10:11:59 UTC 2010


On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:38:55AM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Actually, the preceding patch fixed only the one leak that had been
> introduced in the last month or so.  Looking at the many other functions
> that do the same sort of thing (call qemuMonitorJSONMakeCommand, and
> later virJSONValueFree), I saw that they all had exactly the same leak.
> So this amended patch fixes all of them:
> 
> >From 28f820354dcae9950cad042ea78a893fd9475830 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Jim Meyering <meyering at redhat.com>
> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:58:12 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] qemu_monitor_json.c: avoid many unconditional leaks

The real bug is the virJSONValueFree() itself which is missing
the final VIR_FREE(value) call. By doing the free in the caller, we
still leak data for compound array/hash values.

Daniel
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