[PATCH 1/2] esx: Fix @doms pointer steal in esxConnectListAllDomains()

Michal Privoznik mprivozn at redhat.com
Wed Mar 24 10:27:06 UTC 2021


The ESX implementation of virConnectListAllDomains() follows
pretty much implementations in other drivers: it has local array
of virDomainPtr-s which (if requested by caller) is filled by
actual domains or not (if the caller is interested only in the
count of domains).

Anyway, in case of the former, the passed @domains argument is
set to the local array, which is then set to NULL to prevent it
from freeing under cleanup label. Pretty standard pattern.
Except, the local array is set to NULL always. Even if the local
array is not stolen. Fortunately, this doesn't lead to a memory
leak, because if caller is not interested in the array, none is
allocated. But it doesn't set good example and also breaks my
spatch rules.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
---
 src/esx/esx_driver.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/esx/esx_driver.c b/src/esx/esx_driver.c
index 21705ef6e3..1c68776c18 100644
--- a/src/esx/esx_driver.c
+++ b/src/esx/esx_driver.c
@@ -4929,9 +4929,10 @@ esxConnectListAllDomains(virConnectPtr conn,
         doms[count++] = dom;
     }
 
-    if (doms)
+    if (doms) {
         *domains = doms;
-    doms = NULL;
+        doms = NULL;
+    }
     ret = count;
 
  cleanup:
-- 
2.26.2




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