[libvirt] [PATCH v2] cgroup: reuse buffer for getline

Ján Tomko jtomko at redhat.com
Wed Jul 17 12:11:25 UTC 2013


On 07/17/2013 01:24 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 07/17/2013 04:00 AM, Ján Tomko wrote:
>> Reuse the buffer for getline and track buffer allocation
>> separately from the string length to prevent unlikely
>> out-of-bounds memory access.
>>
>> This fixes the following leak that happened when zero bytes were read:
>>
>> ==404== 120 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 1,344 of 1,671
>> ==404==    at 0x4C2C71B: malloc (in /usr/lib64/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
>> ==404==    by 0x906F862: getdelim (iogetdelim.c:68)
>> ==404==    by 0x52A48FB: virCgroupPartitionNeedsEscaping (vircgroup.c:1136)
>> ==404==    by 0x52A0FB4: virCgroupPartitionEscape (vircgroup.c:1171)
>> ==404==    by 0x52A0EA4: virCgroupNewDomainPartition (vircgroup.c:1450)
>> ---
>> v1: cgroup: Free line even if no characters were read
>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2013-July/msg01030.html
>>
>>  src/util/vircgroup.c | 20 ++++++++++----------
>>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> ACK.
> 

Thanks, pushed now.

Jan




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