[libvirt] [PATCH] Fix destroy command memory leaks
Richard W.M. Jones
rjones at redhat.com
Tue May 20 09:48:27 UTC 2008
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 05:30:33PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> Some pieces of libvirt currently assume that the vir*Destroy
> functions will free the passed object upon success. In
> practice none of the current drivers seem to do this,
> resulting in memory leaks.
>
> The attached patch fixes the leaks I could find, as well as
> changes the comments for virDomainDestroy and virNetworkDestroy
> in libvirt.c to reflect reality. I also added a couple debug
> statements to hash.c where domain reference counts can be
> printed as they are changed.
For virDomainDestroy & virNetworkDestroy & virStoragePoolDestroy, I
have code which assumes that these calls also free the C structure.
AFAIK this has always been the supposedly correct behaviour of these
calls.
Maybe this was broken when Dan changed hash.c a while back?
Anyway the calls should be changed to do what they are supposed to do.
Rich.
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