[libvirt] [PATCH] nodedev: fix pci express memory leak

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Wed Jul 23 13:33:45 UTC 2014


On 07/22/2014 11:20 PM, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 10:42:29PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>> Leak introduced in commit 16ebf10f (v1.2.6), detected by valgrind:
>>
>> ==9816== 216 (96 direct, 120 indirect) bytes in 6 blocks are
>> definitely lost in loss record 665 of 821
>> ==9816==    at 0x4A081D4: calloc (in
>> /usr/lib64/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
>> ==9816==    by 0x50836FB: virAlloc (viralloc.c:144)
>> ==9816==    by 0x1DBDBE27: udevProcessPCI (node_device_udev.c:546)
>> ==9816==    by 0x1DBDD79D: udevGetDeviceDetails (node_device_udev.c:1293)
>>
>> While at it, fix switch statements to be a bit more vocal if we forget
>> some cases when adding new devices.
>>
>> * src/conf/node_device_conf.c (virNodeDeviceDefFormat)
>> (virNodeDevCapsDefParseXML): Drop default case.
>> (virNodeDevCapsDefFree): Likewise, and clear pci_express under pci
>> case.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com>
>> ---
>>
>> I could be persuaded to split this into two patches.
>>
> 
> That would be nice, now that you've mentioned it :)

Will do, in v2.


>>         VIR_FREE(data->pci_dev.iommuGroupDevices);
>> +        VIR_FREE(data->pci_dev.pci_express);
> 
> There should be data->pci_dev.pci_express->link_{sta,cap} free()'d too.
> 
> ACK with that changed.

Then node_device_udev.c has the same bug in udevProcessPCI.  All the
more reason for me to respin.

> 
> Martin

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