[libvirt] [PATCH 1/2] virCgroupValidateMachineGroup: Don't free @machinename

Michal Privoznik mprivozn at redhat.com
Tue Aug 1 09:41:25 UTC 2017


We are given a string in @machinename, we never allocate it, just
merely use it for reading. We should not free it otherwise it
leads to double free:

==32191== Thread 17:
==32191== Invalid free() / delete / delete[] / realloc()
==32191==    at 0x4C2D1A0: free (vg_replace_malloc.c:530)
==32191==    by 0x54BBB84: virFree (viralloc.c:582)
==32191==    by 0x2BC04499: qemuProcessStop (qemu_process.c:6313)
==32191==    by 0x2BC500FF: processMonitorEOFEvent (qemu_driver.c:4724)
==32191==    by 0x2BC502FC: qemuProcessEventHandler (qemu_driver.c:4769)
==32191==    by 0x5550640: virThreadPoolWorker (virthreadpool.c:167)
==32191==    by 0x554FBCF: virThreadHelper (virthread.c:206)
==32191==    by 0x8F913D3: start_thread (in /lib64/libpthread-2.23.so)
==32191==    by 0x928DE3C: clone (in /lib64/libc-2.23.so)
==32191==  Address 0x31893d70 is 0 bytes inside a block of size 1,100 free'd
==32191==    at 0x4C2D1A0: free (vg_replace_malloc.c:530)
==32191==    by 0x54BBB84: virFree (viralloc.c:582)
==32191==    by 0x54C1936: virCgroupValidateMachineGroup (vircgroup.c:343)
==32191==    by 0x54C4B29: virCgroupNewDetectMachine (vircgroup.c:1550)
==32191==    by 0x2BBDDA29: qemuConnectCgroup (qemu_cgroup.c:972)
==32191==    by 0x2BC05DA7: qemuProcessReconnect (qemu_process.c:6822)
==32191==    by 0x554FBCF: virThreadHelper (virthread.c:206)
==32191==    by 0x8F913D3: start_thread (in /lib64/libpthread-2.23.so)
==32191==    by 0x928DE3C: clone (in /lib64/libc-2.23.so)
==32191==  Block was alloc'd at
==32191==    at 0x4C2BE80: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:298)
==32191==    by 0x4C2E35F: realloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:785)
==32191==    by 0x54BB492: virReallocN (viralloc.c:245)
==32191==    by 0x54BEDF2: virBufferGrow (virbuffer.c:150)
==32191==    by 0x54BF3B9: virBufferVasprintf (virbuffer.c:408)
==32191==    by 0x54BF324: virBufferAsprintf (virbuffer.c:381)
==32191==    by 0x55BB271: virDomainGenerateMachineName (domain_conf.c:27078)
==32191==    by 0x2BBD5B8F: qemuDomainGetMachineName (qemu_domain.c:9595)
==32191==    by 0x2BBDD9B4: qemuConnectCgroup (qemu_cgroup.c:966)
==32191==    by 0x2BC05DA7: qemuProcessReconnect (qemu_process.c:6822)
==32191==    by 0x554FBCF: virThreadHelper (virthread.c:206)
==32191==    by 0x8F913D3: start_thread (in /lib64/libpthread-2.23.so)

Moreover, make the @machinename 'const char *' to mark it
explicitly that we are not changing the passed string.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
---
 src/util/vircgroup.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/util/vircgroup.c b/src/util/vircgroup.c
index f274aee81..0a31947b0 100644
--- a/src/util/vircgroup.c
+++ b/src/util/vircgroup.c
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ virCgroupValidateMachineGroup(virCgroupPtr group,
                               const char *name,
                               const char *drivername,
                               bool stripEmulatorSuffix,
-                              char *machinename)
+                              const char *machinename)
 {
     size_t i;
     bool valid = false;
@@ -340,7 +340,6 @@ virCgroupValidateMachineGroup(virCgroupPtr group,
     VIR_FREE(partname);
     VIR_FREE(scopename_old);
     VIR_FREE(scopename_new);
-    VIR_FREE(machinename);
     return valid;
 }
 
-- 
2.13.0




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