[libvirt] [PATCH 3/3] xenconfig: Resolve Coverity RESOURCE_LEAK

Michal Privoznik mprivozn at redhat.com
Fri Aug 22 15:49:26 UTC 2014


On 22.08.2014 17:28, John Ferlan wrote:
> Since '337a13628' - Coverity complains that 'net' is VIR_ALLOC()'d, but
> on various 'cleanup' exit paths from the code there is no corresponding
> cleanup.  Since 'net' is eventually appended onto a list of nets we don't
> want to delete the last one - be sure to set it to NULL, but still call
> the free function in cleanup
>
> Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan at redhat.com>
> ---
>   src/xenconfig/xen_common.c | 2 ++
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/src/xenconfig/xen_common.c b/src/xenconfig/xen_common.c
> index 398e9ec..c487feb 100644
> --- a/src/xenconfig/xen_common.c
> +++ b/src/xenconfig/xen_common.c
> @@ -949,6 +949,7 @@ xenParseVif(virConfPtr conf, virDomainDefPtr def)
>
>               if (VIR_APPEND_ELEMENT(def->nets, def->nnets, net) < 0)
>                   goto cleanup;
> +            net = NULL;

This is not needed. VIR_APPEND_ELEMENT() should clear out the @net 
variable. Or does coverity fail to see it?

>
>           skipnic:
>               list = list->next;
> @@ -960,6 +961,7 @@ xenParseVif(virConfPtr conf, virDomainDefPtr def)
>       return 0;
>
>    cleanup:
> +    virDomainNetDefFree(net);
>       VIR_FREE(script);
>       return -1;
>   }
>

In fact this chunk alone should be enough.

Michal




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