[libvirt] [PATCH 4/5] Fix leak of remote driver if final 'CLOSE' RPC call fails

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Fri Jul 8 14:56:08 UTC 2011


On 07/08/2011 05:57 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com>
> 
> When closing a remote connection we issue a (fairly pointless)
> 'CLOSE' RPC call to the daemon. If this fails we skip all the
> cleanup of private data, but the virConnectPtr object still
> gets released as normal. This causes a memory leak. Since the
> CLOSE RPC call is pretty pointless, just carry on freeing the
> remote driver if it fails.
> 
> * src/remote/remote_driver.c: Ignore failure to issue CLOSE
>   RPC call
> ---
>  src/remote/remote_driver.c |    6 ++++--
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

ACK.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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