[libvirt] [PATCH] qemuDomainSnapshotCreateXML: Don't leak parsed snapshot definition

Erik Skultety eskultet at redhat.com
Tue May 14 14:11:23 UTC 2019


On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 03:52:07PM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> This function gets snapshot XML (provided by used) as an
> argument. It parses it into a local variable @def and then sets
> some more members (e.g. it creates a copy of live domain XML).
> Then it proceeds to checking if snapshot XML is valid (e.g. it
> contains as many disks as currently in the domain). If this fails
> then the control jumps to endjob label and subsequently return
> from the function. This is where AUTOFREE function for @def is
> ran. Well, because the code says to run plain VIR_FREE() we leak
> some memory because @def is actually an object and therefore
> it should have been declared as AUTOUNREF.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
> ---
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet at redhat.com>




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