[libvirt] [PATCH] Resolve memory leak found by valgrind

John Ferlan jferlan at redhat.com
Fri May 31 13:54:25 UTC 2013


Commit '6afdfc8e' adjusted the exit and error paths to go through the error
and cleanup labels, but neglected to remove the return ret prior to cleanup.
Also noted the 'type' xml string fetch was never checked for NULL which
could lead to some interesting results.
---
 src/conf/storage_conf.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/conf/storage_conf.c b/src/conf/storage_conf.c
index f0ea41d..94eb69a 100644
--- a/src/conf/storage_conf.c
+++ b/src/conf/storage_conf.c
@@ -834,6 +834,12 @@ virStoragePoolDefParseXML(xmlXPathContextPtr ctxt)
     }
 
     type = virXPathString("string(./@type)", ctxt);
+    if (type == NULL) {
+        virReportError(VIR_ERR_XML_ERROR,
+                       _("storage pool missing type attribute"));
+        goto error;
+    }
+
     if ((ret->type = virStoragePoolTypeFromString(type)) < 0) {
         virReportError(VIR_ERR_XML_ERROR,
                        _("unknown storage pool type %s"), type);
@@ -956,8 +962,6 @@ virStoragePoolDefParseXML(xmlXPathContextPtr ctxt)
             goto error;
     }
 
-    return ret;
-
 cleanup:
     VIR_FREE(uuid);
     VIR_FREE(type);
-- 
1.8.1.4




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