[libvirt] Are they reasonable FD leaks?

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Fri Feb 3 17:25:08 UTC 2012


On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 03:04:41AM -0500, Alex Jia wrote:
> If you're using libvirt upstream to check it, you need to revoke
> commit 6152c74, which fixed memory leak issue on cmdUndefine(), 
> it's okay without FD leaks if memory leak is fixed, in other
> words, you will met FD leaks if you saw the following similar
> error information:
> 
> error: Failed to disconnect from the hypervisor, 1 leaked reference(s)

This is a sign of some code failing to unref the virStoragePoolPtr
or virStorageVolPtr or virConnectPtr object.

> It seems libvirt deliberately leaks these FDs, right?

I don't think that is delibrate.

Daniel
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