[libvirt] [PATCH C#] Fix two memory leaks in the ConnectCredential.Result setter

[Daniel Veillard]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:38:17PM +0200, Matthias Bolte wrote:
> StringToHGlobalAnsi returns a pointer to unmanaged memory that
> must be freed using FreeHGlobal.
> 
> When the setter is called twice the strdup'ed unmanaged string
> from the first call leaks. Free it before assigning it again.
[...]
> +
> +        // TODO : this is a temporary workaround for virConnectOpenAuth callback, this should be removed
> +        [DllImport("msvcrt.dll", EntryPoint = "free", CallingConvention = CallingConvention.Cdecl)]
> +        public static extern void Free(IntPtr ptr);
>      }
[...]
> +                IntPtr tmp = Marshal.StringToHGlobalAnsi(value);
> +
> +                NativeFunctions.Free(result);
> +                result = NativeFunctions.StrDup(tmp);
>                  resultlen = (uint)value.Length;
> +
> +                Marshal.FreeHGlobal(tmp);

  This raises 2 questions, how temporary is 'temporary' ;-) ?
And I assume the client code don't need to do similar things, that's
just the bindings, right ?

Daniel

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