Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qapi: Fix memory leak

[Laszlo Ersek]

On 08/18/12 22:51, Stefan Weil wrote:
> valgrind report:
> 
> ==24534== 232 bytes in 2 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 1,245 of 
> 1,601
> ==24534==    at 0x4824F20: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:236)
> ==24534==    by 0x293C88: malloc_and_trace (vl.c:2281)
> ==24534==    by 0x489AD99: ??? (in /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.1)
> ==24534==    by 0x489B23B: g_malloc0 (in /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.1)
> ==24534==    by 0x2B4EFC: opts_visitor_new (opts-visitor.c:376)
> ==24534==    by 0x29DEA5: net_client_init (net.c:708)
> ==24534==    by 0x29E6C7: net_init_client (net.c:966)
> ==24534==    by 0x2C2179: qemu_opts_foreach (qemu-option.c:1114)
> ==24534==    by 0x29E85B: net_init_clients (net.c:1008)
> ==24534==    by 0x296F40: main (vl.c:3463)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <address@hidden>
> ---
>  qapi/opts-visitor.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/qapi/opts-visitor.c b/qapi/opts-visitor.c
> index a59d306..e048b6c 100644
> --- a/qapi/opts-visitor.c
> +++ b/qapi/opts-visitor.c
> @@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ opts_visitor_cleanup(OptsVisitor *ov)
>          g_hash_table_destroy(ov->unprocessed_opts);
>      }
>      g_free(ov->fake_id_opt);
> -    memset(ov, '\0', sizeof *ov);
> +    g_free(ov);
>  }
>  
>  

I don't remember why I thought the object would / should live on. I must
have implemented what I thought was safe / correct for the life-cycle,
except I got the life-cycle wrong. Face, meet palm.

Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <address@hidden>

Thanks & sorry!
Laszlo