[libvirt] [PATCH 3/4] rpc: avoid memory leak on error

[Eric Blake]

On 06/30/2011 07:05 PM, Wen Congyang wrote:
> At 07/01/2011 07:36 AM, Eric Blake Write:
>> Detected by Coverity.  The leak is on an error path, but I'm not
>> sure whether that path is likely to be triggered in practice.
>>

>>  error:
>>      virNetSocketFree(clientsock);
>> +    virNetServerClientFree(client);
> 
> If svc->dispatchFunc is NULL, we will goto here to do cleanup. Unfortunately,
> client->sock is clientsock and it will be freed again in virNetServerClientFree().
> It may cause libvirtd crashed.
> 
> If svc->dispatchFunc() failed, we close and free client. But we only free client here,
> not close it here. Do we need to close it here?
> 
> I think the cleanup code should like this:
> 
> if (client) {
>     virNetServerClientClose(client);
>     virNetServerClientFree(client);
> } else {
>     virNetSocketFree(clientsock);
> }

Makes sense to me, but I'd rather hear Dan's take on it as author of
that code.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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