[libvirt] [PATCH] Fix memory leak in virObjectEventCallbackListRemoveID()

Nehal J Wani nehaljw.kkd1 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 13 12:38:57 UTC 2013


While running objecteventtest, it was found that valgrind pointed out the
following memory leak:

==13464== 5 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 7 of 134
==13464==    at 0x4A0887C: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:270)
==13464==    by 0x341F485E21: strdup (strdup.c:42)
==13464==    by 0x4CAE28F: virStrdup (virstring.c:554)
==13464==    by 0x4CF3CBE: virObjectEventCallbackListAddID (object_event.c:286)
==13464==    by 0x4CF49CA: virObjectEventStateRegisterID (object_event.c:729)
==13464==    by 0x4CF73FE: virDomainEventStateRegisterID (domain_event.c:1424)
==13464==    by 0x4D7358F: testConnectDomainEventRegisterAny (test_driver.c:6032)
==13464==    by 0x4D600C8: virConnectDomainEventRegisterAny (libvirt.c:19128)
==13464==    by 0x402409: testDomainStartStopEvent (objecteventtest.c:232)
==13464==    by 0x403451: virtTestRun (testutils.c:138)
==13464==    by 0x402012: mymain (objecteventtest.c:395)
==13464==    by 0x403AF2: virtTestMain (testutils.c:593)
==13464==

---
 Should we be introducing virObjectMetaFree() and/or virObjectEventCallbackFree() ?
 src/conf/object_event.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/conf/object_event.c b/src/conf/object_event.c
index ec00aaf..399927b 100644
--- a/src/conf/object_event.c
+++ b/src/conf/object_event.c
@@ -137,6 +137,9 @@ virObjectEventCallbackListRemoveID(virConnectPtr conn,
             if (freecb)
                 (*freecb)(cbList->callbacks[i]->opaque);
             virObjectUnref(cbList->callbacks[i]->conn);
+            if (cbList->callbacks[i]->meta)
+                VIR_FREE(cbList->callbacks[i]->meta->name);
+            VIR_FREE(cbList->callbacks[i]->meta);
             VIR_FREE(cbList->callbacks[i]);
 
             if (i < (cbList->count - 1))
-- 
1.8.1.4




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