[libvirt] [PATCH] storage: fix memory leak with encrypted images
Eric Blake
eblake at redhat.com
Tue Jun 10 17:41:34 UTC 2014
On 06/09/2014 10:38 PM, Jim Fehlig wrote:
> Eric Blake wrote:
>> Jim Fehlig reported a regression found by libvirt-TCK tests:
>>
>> Commit 2279d560 converted a boolean into a pointer with the intent of
>> transferring that pointer out of a temporary object into the caller's
>> data structure. The temporary structure meant that meta->encryption
>> was always NULL on entry, so we could get away with blindly allocating
>> the pointer when the header said so. But later commits then tweaked
>> things to do backing chain detection in-place, rather than via a
>> temporary object; this has the net result that meta->encryption can be
>> non-NULL on entry.
>
> For reference, bisected and found the 'later commit' you mentioned to be
>
> commit 8823272d41a259c1246c05d89f40ad3614fba58c
Thanks for doing that bisect.
>
> ACK.
I've improved the commit message and pushed.
--
Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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