[libvirt] [PATCH] network_conf.c: Free xmlDoc after use

[Eric Blake]

On 02/08/2013 07:52 AM, John Ferlan wrote:
> On 02/08/2013 09:26 AM, Michal Privoznik wrote:
>> The virNetworkObjUpdateParseFile() function was not freeing the xml
>> variable, leaving us with a memory leak.
>> ---
>>  src/conf/network_conf.c | 1 +
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/src/conf/network_conf.c b/src/conf/network_conf.c
>> index c93916d..3604ff7 100644
>> --- a/src/conf/network_conf.c
>> +++ b/src/conf/network_conf.c
>> @@ -1895,6 +1895,7 @@ virNetworkObjUpdateParseFile(const char *filename,
>>      ret = 0;
>>  
>>  cleanup:
>> +    xmlFreeDoc(xml);
>>      xmlXPathFreeContext(ctxt);
>>      return ret;
>>  }
>>
> ACK
> 
> Neither Coverity or Valgrind picked this up!

Hmm - on the Coverity side, that probably means doesn't know how to
model virXMLParse as an allocating function, or its was being filtered
out by hueristics.  I wonder if Coverity is missing any other resource
leaks, or if we could add annotations to allocating functions to make
Coverity's job easier.

On the Valgrind side, that makes sense - valgrind only detects leaks
according to your actual execution usage; if you never pass libvirt
input that triggers this code path, valgrind can't complain about it.
I'm sure that it would be possible to write a test case that triggers
this code and would make valgrind complain; but don't know how easy or
hard it would be to get this extra coverage.  Our tests definitely don't
have 100% code coverage yet, and probably never will (you hit a point of
diminishing returns, where it gets harder to trigger certain code paths).

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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