[libvirt] [PATCH 11/23] Fix leak of iterators in virDBusMessageIterEncode
Eric Blake
eblake at redhat.com
Wed Sep 25 16:57:58 UTC 2013
On 09/25/2013 10:54 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:45:00AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 09/25/2013 08:51 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>> From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com>
>>>
>>> If virDBusMessageIterEncode hits an OOM condition it often
>>> leaks the memory associated with the dbus iterator object
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>
>>> ---
>>
>>>
>>> cleanup:
>>> + while (nstack > 0) {
>>> + DBusMessageIter *thisiter = iter;
>>> + VIR_DEBUG("Popping iter=%p", iter);
>>> + if (virDBusTypeStackPop(&stack, &nstack, &iter,
>>> + &types, &nstruct, &narray) < 0)
>>> + goto cleanup;
>>
>> I'm worried that this will infloop. What guarantee do we have that
>> nstack reduces when virDBusTypeStackPop fails?
>
> It can only return -1, if nstack == 0, so I think we're fine there
But you already checked that nstack was > 0. So write it:
ignore_value(virDBusTypeStackPop(...));
rather than the confusing dead-code backwards goto.
ACK with that change.
--
Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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