[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: Don't corrupt pointer in qemuDomainSaveMemory()

Peter Krempa pkrempa at redhat.com
Tue Nov 6 13:59:16 UTC 2012


On 11/06/12 14:21, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 11/06/2012 03:07 AM, Peter Krempa wrote:
>> The code that was split out into the qemuDomainSaveMemory expands the
>> pointer containing the XML description of the domain that it gets from
>> higher layers. If the pointer changes the old one is invalid and the
>> upper layer function tries to free it causing an abort.
>>
>> This patch changes the expansion of the original string to a new
>> alocation and copy of the contents.
>
> s/alocation/allocation/
>
>> ---
>>   src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 10 +++++++---
>>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> ACK.  Good find, and hidden enough that I can see how I missed it in the
> first review.

I fixed the commit message and pushed the patch.

Thanks.

Peter




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