[PATCH] virxml: Fix possible memory leak in virXMLNodeContentString()

Kristina Hanicova khanicov at redhat.com
Wed Mar 17 17:01:45 UTC 2021


Previously, if xml node passed to the virXMLNodeContentString()
was not of type XML_ELEMENT_NODE, @ret could have caused a memory
leak because xmlNodeGetContent() works for other types of nodes
as well.

Signed-off-by: Kristina Hanicova <khanicov at redhat.com>
---
 src/util/virxml.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/util/virxml.c b/src/util/virxml.c
index 060b7530fc..4a6fe09468 100644
--- a/src/util/virxml.c
+++ b/src/util/virxml.c
@@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ virXMLPropStringLimit(xmlNodePtr node,
 char *
 virXMLNodeContentString(xmlNodePtr node)
 {
-    char *ret = (char *)xmlNodeGetContent(node);
+    char *ret = NULL;
 
     if (node->type !=  XML_ELEMENT_NODE) {
         virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR,
@@ -545,6 +545,8 @@ virXMLNodeContentString(xmlNodePtr node)
         return NULL;
     }
 
+    ret = (char *)xmlNodeGetContent(node);
+
     if (!ret) {
         virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR,
                        _("node '%s' has unexpected NULL content. This could be caused by malformed input, or a memory allocation failure"),
-- 
2.29.2




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