[libvirt] [PATCH 02/22] pci: change stubDriver from const char* to char*

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 05:54:51AM -0400, Laine Stump wrote:
> Previously stubDriver was always set from a string literal, so it was
> okay to use a const char * that wasn't freed when the virPCIDevice was
> freed. This will not be the case in the near future, so it is now a
> char* that is allocated in virPCIDeviceSetStubDriver() and freed
> during virPCIDeviceFree().
> ---
>  src/qemu/qemu_driver.c  |  6 ++++--
>  src/qemu/qemu_hostdev.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++--------
>  src/util/virpci.c       |  8 +++++---
>  src/util/virpci.h       |  4 ++--
>  src/xen/xen_driver.c    |  3 ++-
>  5 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

ACK


It is bad practice to assume you can keep around a copy of any
'const char*' passed in as a parameter, since the const-ness of
the parameter says nothing about whether the caller will free
the parameter value.

Daniel
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