[libvirt] [PATCH] Domain/Net object cleanups after remote error

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Tue May 20 13:39:20 UTC 2008


On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 02:39:52PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> I'm not entirely convinced yet - the code certainly suggests to me that
> we need to free these. Only a couple of lines further up we obtain a referenced
> object
> 
>     /* Get the domain and network, if set. */
>     dom = err->dom ? get_nonnull_domain (conn, *err->dom) : NULL;
>     net = err->net ? get_nonnull_network (conn, *err->net) : NULL;
> 
> And __virRaiseError() does *not* own the reference after being called, thus
> we need to explicitly release the reference ourselves.

Agreed with Dan ... I'm not sure how the leaks can go away with the
other patch.  OTOH the ref-counting stuff is complicated.

Rich.

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