[libvirt] [PATCH] Fix leak of iterator in nwfilter instantiate code

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Mon Mar 17 12:33:24 UTC 2014


On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 11:40:39AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> The ebiptablesCreateRuleInstanceIterate creates a
> virNWFilterVarCombIterPtr instance and iterates over
> it. Unfortunately in doing so, it discards the original
> pointer. At the end of the method it will thus effectively
> do virNWFilterVarCombIterFree(NULL), which means it will
> leak the iterator.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>
> ---
>  src/nwfilter/nwfilter_ebiptables_driver.c | 12 ++++++------
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Opps, this is wrong. The virNWFilterVarCombIterNext method
will bizarely  free its input parameter at the end. I'll
send a different patch to give this saner semantics.

Regards,
Daniel
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