[PATCH 5/7] logging: Resolve mem leak in virLogDaemonPreExecRestart

John Ferlan jferlan at redhat.com
Wed Dec 2 12:43:19 UTC 2020


Initialize and free @magic since virJSONValueObjectAppendString
does not free it for us eventually.

Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan at redhat.com>
---
 src/logging/log_daemon.c | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/logging/log_daemon.c b/src/logging/log_daemon.c
index be93c63eb5..6b8f3b6fe5 100644
--- a/src/logging/log_daemon.c
+++ b/src/logging/log_daemon.c
@@ -508,7 +508,7 @@ virLogDaemonPreExecRestart(const char *state_file,
     virJSONValuePtr child;
     char *state = NULL;
     virJSONValuePtr object = virJSONValueNewObject();
-    char *magic;
+    char *magic = NULL;
 
     VIR_DEBUG("Running pre-restart exec");
 
@@ -523,10 +523,8 @@ virLogDaemonPreExecRestart(const char *state_file,
     if (!(magic = virLogDaemonGetExecRestartMagic()))
         goto cleanup;
 
-    if (virJSONValueObjectAppendString(object, "magic", magic) < 0) {
-        VIR_FREE(magic);
+    if (virJSONValueObjectAppendString(object, "magic", magic) < 0)
         goto cleanup;
-    }
 
     if (!(child = virLogHandlerPreExecRestart(logDaemon->handler)))
         goto cleanup;
@@ -559,6 +557,7 @@ virLogDaemonPreExecRestart(const char *state_file,
     abort(); /* This should be impossible to reach */
 
  cleanup:
+    VIR_FREE(magic);
     VIR_FREE(state);
     virJSONValueFree(object);
     return -1;
-- 
2.28.0




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