[libvirt] [PATCH] fix memory leak in virCopyLastError

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 02:24:15PM +0800, Hu Tao wrote:
> memset before virResetError will cause memory leak.
> 
> virResetError and virCopyError, which calls virResetError, will do
> memset properly, so we don't have to worry about it here.
> 
> ---
>  src/util/virterror.c |    2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/util/virterror.c b/src/util/virterror.c
> index 7caa69e..46afd37 100644
> --- a/src/util/virterror.c
> +++ b/src/util/virterror.c
> @@ -276,8 +276,6 @@ int
>  virCopyLastError(virErrorPtr to)
>  {
>      virErrorPtr err = virLastErrorObject();
> -    /* We can't guarantee caller has initialized it to zero */
> -    memset(to, 0, sizeof(*to));
>      if (err)
>          virCopyError(err, to);
>      else

Concur with DV's NACK on this. It is the *callers* responsibility
to ensure that 'to' does not have any allocations, by calling
virResetError(&to) themselvs if needed.


Daniel
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