[virt-tools-list] [PATCH] virtManager: do not call set_cell_data_func with an empty func

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Thu Oct 31 14:34:57 UTC 2013


On 10/30/2013 03:41 PM, Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:
> Cole Robinson <crobinso at redhat.com> writes:
> 
>> Hmm, the problem is this was an important piece in working around a pygobject
>> memory leak. That leak is fixed in upstream pygobject (and probably rawhide,
>> but I haven't checked the version), but if we commit this now but push a
>> release to F20, that memory leak bit will regress.
> 
> Thanks for the info.  I thought it was safe to assume that this
> pygobject bug was fixed so we could just forget it.
> 
> 
>> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/commits-list/2012-October/msg03530.html
>>
>> And it sounds bogus here anyways, since we aren't passing any user data. So I
>> think it's a pygobject bug. We can carry this patch in rawhide temporarily but
>> I don't think we should push it upstream yet.
>>
>> The pygobject guys are very responsive upstream, if you boil down a minimal
>> reproducer and file a bug it'll likely be fixed very quickly.
> 
> I've filed a bug against pygobject with a repro script, let's see what
> happens :-)
> 

Thanks, if others are interested, the bug is:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=711173

- Cole




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