[libvirt] [PATCH] admin: Resolve leaked reference to private data

Erik Skultety eskultet at redhat.com
Tue Sep 8 08:12:37 UTC 2015


On 08/09/15 10:04, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 05:45:57PM +0200, Erik Skultety wrote:
>> Running valgrind on a very simplistic program consisting only from
>> opening and closing admin connection (virAdmConnect{Open,Close}) shows a
>> leak in remoteAdminPrivNew, because the last reference to privateData is
>> not decremented, thus the object won't be disposed. This patch unrefs
>> the privateData object once we closed the active connection to daemon,
>> making further use of this connection  useless.
>>
>> ==24577==    at 0x4A089C7: calloc (in
>> /usr/lib64/valgrind/vgpreload_***linux.so)
>> ==24577==    by 0x4E8835F: virAllocVar (viralloc.c:560)
>> ==24577==    by 0x4EDFA5C: virObjectNew (virobject.c:193)
>> ==24577==    by 0x4EDFBD4: virObjectLockableNew (virobject.c:219)
>> ==24577==    by 0x4C14DAF: remoteAdminPrivNew (libvirt-admin.c:152)
>> ==24577==    by 0x4C1537E: virAdmConnectOpen (libvirt-admin.c:308)
>> ==24577==    by 0x400BAD: main (listservers.c:39)
>>
>> ==24577== LEAK SUMMARY:
>> ==24577==    definitely lost: 80 bytes in 1 blocks
>> ==24577==    indirectly lost: 840 bytes in 6 blocks
>> ==24577==      possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
>> ==24577==    still reachable: 12,179 bytes in 199 blocks
>> ==24577==         suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
>> ---
>> src/libvirt-admin.c | 1 +
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
> 
> ACK

Thanks, pushed now.

Erik




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