[libvirt] [PATCH] fix memory leak in src/nodeinfo.c

Stefan Berger stefanb at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Dec 9 14:51:03 UTC 2011


Fix memory leak:

==27534== 24 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 207 of 530
==27534==    at 0x4A05E46: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:195)
==27534==    by 0x38EC26EC37: vasprintf (in /lib64/libc-2.13.so)
==27534==    by 0x4E998E6: virVasprintf (util.c:1677)
==27534==    by 0x4E999F1: virAsprintf (util.c:1695)
==27534==    by 0x4F1EAAC: nodeGetInfo (nodeinfo.c:593)
==27534==    by 0x47948F: qemuCapsInitCPU (qemu_capabilities.c:855)
==27534==    by 0x4796B1: qemuCapsInit (qemu_capabilities.c:915)
==27534==    by 0x456550: qemuCreateCapabilities (qemu_driver.c:245)
==27534==    by 0x4578C4: qemudStartup (qemu_driver.c:580)
==27534==    by 0x4F20886: virStateInitialize (libvirt.c:852)
==27534==    by 0x420E55: daemonRunStateInit (libvirtd.c:1156)
==27534==    by 0x4E94C56: virThreadHelper (threads-pthread.c:157)

Mark this leaked variable as const char * when it is passed into another
function.

---
  src/nodeinfo.c |    9 ++++++---
  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Index: libvirt-iterator/src/nodeinfo.c
===================================================================
--- libvirt-iterator.orig/src/nodeinfo.c
+++ libvirt-iterator/src/nodeinfo.c
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@

  /* NB, this is not static as we need to call it from the testsuite */
  int linuxNodeInfoCPUPopulate(FILE *cpuinfo,
-                             char *sysfs_cpudir,
+                             const char *sysfs_cpudir,
                               virNodeInfoPtr nodeinfo);

  static int linuxNodeGetCPUStats(FILE *procstat,
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ static int parse_core(unsigned int cpu)
  }

  int linuxNodeInfoCPUPopulate(FILE *cpuinfo,
-                             char *sysfs_cpudir,
+                             const char *sysfs_cpudir,
                               virNodeInfoPtr nodeinfo)
  {
      char line[1024];
@@ -597,9 +597,12 @@ int nodeGetInfo(virConnectPtr conn ATTRI

      ret = linuxNodeInfoCPUPopulate(cpuinfo, sysfs_cpuinfo, nodeinfo);
      VIR_FORCE_FCLOSE(cpuinfo);
-    if (ret < 0)
+    if (ret < 0) {
+        VIR_FREE(sysfs_cpuinfo);
          return -1;
+    }

+    VIR_FREE(sysfs_cpuinfo);
      /* Convert to KB. */
      nodeinfo->memory = physmem_total () / 1024;




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