[libvirt] [PATCHv2 1/6] threads: check for failure to set thread-local value

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu Jan 19 18:48:48 UTC 2012


On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:44:41AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> We had a memory leak on a very arcane OOM situation (unlikely to ever
> hit in practice, but who knows if libvirt.so would ever be linked
> into some other program that exhausts all thread-local storage keys?).
> I found it by code inspection, while analyzing a valgrind report
> generated by Alex Jia.
> 
> * src/util/threads.h (virThreadLocalSet): Alter signature.
> * src/util/threads-pthread.c (virThreadHelper): Reduce allocation
> lifetime.
> (virThreadLocalSet): Detect failure.
> * src/util/threads-win32.c (virThreadLocalSet): Likewise.
> (virCondWait): Fix caller.
> * src/util/virterror.c (virLastErrorObject): Likewise.
> ---
>  src/util/threads-pthread.c |   14 +++++++++++---
>  src/util/threads-win32.c   |    9 ++++++---
>  src/util/threads.h         |    2 +-
>  src/util/virterror.c       |    5 +++--
>  4 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

ACK

Daniel
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