[libvirt] [PATCH] esx: Fix memory leaks in error paths related to transferred ownership

Michal Privoznik mprivozn at redhat.com
Mon May 7 10:15:26 UTC 2012


On 06.05.2012 19:39, Matthias Bolte wrote:
> Appending an item to a list transfers ownership of that item to the
> list owner. But an error can occur in between item allocation and
> appending it to the list. In this case the item has to be freed
> explicitly. This was not done in some special cases resulting in
> possible memory leaks.
> 
> Reported by Coverity.
> ---
> 
> This is actually a v2 for this patch
> 
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-May/msg00115.html
> 
>  src/esx/esx_driver.c |   16 ++++++++++--
>  src/esx/esx_vi.c     |   63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  2 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 


ACK

Michal




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