[libvirt] [PATCH] admin: Resolve leaked reference to private data

Erik Skultety eskultet at redhat.com
Mon Sep 7 15:45:57 UTC 2015


Running valgrind on a very simplistic program consisting only from
opening and closing admin connection (virAdmConnect{Open,Close}) shows a
leak in remoteAdminPrivNew, because the last reference to privateData is
not decremented, thus the object won't be disposed. This patch unrefs
the privateData object once we closed the active connection to daemon,
making further use of this connection  useless.

==24577==    at 0x4A089C7: calloc (in /usr/lib64/valgrind/vgpreload_***linux.so)
==24577==    by 0x4E8835F: virAllocVar (viralloc.c:560)
==24577==    by 0x4EDFA5C: virObjectNew (virobject.c:193)
==24577==    by 0x4EDFBD4: virObjectLockableNew (virobject.c:219)
==24577==    by 0x4C14DAF: remoteAdminPrivNew (libvirt-admin.c:152)
==24577==    by 0x4C1537E: virAdmConnectOpen (libvirt-admin.c:308)
==24577==    by 0x400BAD: main (listservers.c:39)

==24577== LEAK SUMMARY:
==24577==    definitely lost: 80 bytes in 1 blocks
==24577==    indirectly lost: 840 bytes in 6 blocks
==24577==      possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==24577==    still reachable: 12,179 bytes in 199 blocks
==24577==         suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
---
 src/libvirt-admin.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/src/libvirt-admin.c b/src/libvirt-admin.c
index b3fd0b3..5a4fc48 100644
--- a/src/libvirt-admin.c
+++ b/src/libvirt-admin.c
@@ -132,6 +132,7 @@ remoteAdminPrivFree(void *opaque)
     virAdmConnectPtr conn = opaque;
 
     remoteAdminConnectClose(conn);
+    virObjectUnref(conn->privateData);
 }
 
 static remoteAdminPrivPtr
-- 
2.4.3




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