[libvirt] [PATCH] virsh: plug memory leak on cmdDomIfGetLink() sucessful path

ajia at redhat.com ajia at redhat.com
Thu Dec 8 06:09:57 UTC 2011


From: Alex Jia <ajia at redhat.com>

Detected by valgrind. Leak introduced in commit dc675f3:

* tools/virsh.c: fix memory leak on cmdDomIfGetLink.

* how to reproduce?
  % valgrind -v --leak-check=full virsh domif-getlink <domain name> 0

* actual valgrind result:

==13102== 18 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 9 of 47
==13102==    at 0x4A05FDE: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:236)
==13102==    by 0x322A6A67DD: xmlStrndup (in /usr/lib64/libxml2.so.2.7.6)
==13102==    by 0x414892: cmdDomIfGetLink (virsh.c:1538)
==13102==    by 0x4136A2: vshCommandRun (virsh.c:16363)
==13102==    by 0x4253FB: main (virsh.c:17865)
==13102==
==13102== LEAK SUMMARY:
==13102==    definitely lost: 18 bytes in 1 blocks
==13102==    indirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==13102==      possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==13102==    still reachable: 127,888 bytes in 1,361 blocks
==13102==         suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks

Signed-off-by: Alex Jia <ajia at redhat.com>
---
 tools/virsh.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/virsh.c b/tools/virsh.c
index e6e4f8b..276e1cc 100644
--- a/tools/virsh.c
+++ b/tools/virsh.c
@@ -1538,7 +1538,6 @@ cmdDomIfGetLink (vshControl *ctl, const vshCmd *cmd)
                 mac = virXMLPropString(cur, "address");
 
                 if (STRCASEEQ(mac, iface)){
-                    VIR_FREE(mac);
                     goto hit;
                 }
             }
@@ -1574,6 +1573,7 @@ cleanup:
     if (dom)
         virDomainFree(dom);
 
+    VIR_FREE(mac);
     return ret;
 }
 
-- 
1.7.1




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