[PATCH] virpci: Resolve leak in virPCIVirtualFunctionList cleanup

Ján Tomko jtomko at redhat.com
Tue May 2 07:43:45 UTC 2023


On a Monday in 2023, Tim Shearer wrote:
>Repeatedly querying an SR-IOV PCI device's capabilities exposes a
>memory leak caused by a failure to free the virPCIVirtualFunction
>array within the parent struct's g_autoptr cleanup.
>
>Valgrind output after getting a single interface's XML description
>1000 times:
>
>==325982== 256,000 bytes in 1,000 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 2,634 of 2,635
>==325982==    at 0x4C3C096: realloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:1437)
>==325982==    by 0x59D952D: g_realloc (in /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0.5600.4)
>==325982==    by 0x4EE1F52: virReallocN (viralloc.c:52)
>==325982==    by 0x4EE1FB7: virExpandN (viralloc.c:78)
>==325982==    by 0x4EE219A: virInsertElementInternal (viralloc.c:183)
>==325982==    by 0x4EE23B2: virAppendElement (viralloc.c:288)
>==325982==    by 0x4F65D85: virPCIGetVirtualFunctionsFull (virpci.c:2389)
>==325982==    by 0x4F65753: virPCIGetVirtualFunctions (virpci.c:2256)
>==325982==    by 0x505CB75: virNodeDeviceGetPCISRIOVCaps (node_device_conf.c:2969)
>==325982==    by 0x505D181: virNodeDeviceGetPCIDynamicCaps (node_device_conf.c:3099)
>==325982==    by 0x505BC4E: virNodeDeviceUpdateCaps (node_device_conf.c:2677)
>==325982==    by 0x260FCBB2: nodeDeviceGetXMLDesc (node_device_driver.c:355)
>
>Signed-off-by: Tim Shearer <tshearer at adva.com>
>---
> src/util/virpci.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>

Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko at redhat.com>

Jano
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