[libvirt] [PATCH] libxl: fix potential double free in libxlDriverGetDom0MaxmemConf

Jim Fehlig jfehlig at suse.com
Wed Feb 15 17:49:35 UTC 2017


Commit 4ab0c959 fixed a memory leak in libxlDriverGetDom0MaxmemConf
but introduced a potential double free of mem_tokens

*** Error in `/usr/sbin/libvirtd': double free or corruption (out):
    0x00007fffc808cfd0 ***

Avoid double free by setting mem_tokens to NULL after calling
virStringListFree.

Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig at suse.com>
---
 src/libxl/libxl_conf.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c b/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c
index f5b788b50..4bab651b3 100644
--- a/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c
+++ b/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c
@@ -1623,6 +1623,7 @@ libxlDriverGetDom0MaxmemConf(libxlDriverConfigPtr cfg,
             }
         }
         virStringListFree(mem_tokens);
+        mem_tokens = NULL;
     }
 
  physmem:
-- 
2.11.0




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