[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: Fix FD leak in qemudStartVMDaemon

Matthias Bolte matthias.bolte at googlemail.com
Thu Mar 18 13:31:56 UTC 2010


2010/3/18 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com>:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:35:51PM +0100, Matthias Bolte wrote:
>> The logfile FD is dup2'ed in __virExec in the child. The FD needs to
>> be closed in the parent, otherwise it leaks.
>> ---
>>  src/qemu/qemu_driver.c |    3 +++
>>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
>> index c8f3a15..fbb1275 100644
>> --- a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
>> +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
>> @@ -2963,6 +2963,9 @@ static int qemudStartVMDaemon(virConnectPtr conn,
>>      if (virDomainSaveStatus(driver->caps, driver->stateDir, vm) < 0)
>>          goto abort;
>>
>> +    if (logfile != -1)
>> +        close(logfile);
>> +
>>      return 0;
>>
>>  cleanup:
>
>  ACK, but we test
>
>  if ((logfile = ...) < 0)
>       goto cleanup;
>
> so the logical counterpart would be
>
>  if (logfile >= 0)
>      close(logfile);
>
> Daniel
>

True. I just copied the the close call from the cleanup block. Both
blocks (cleanup and abort) check for != 1, so one could argue to
change them to >= 0 too.

Matthias




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