Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/3] migration: fix memory leak when updating tls-creds and tls-hostname

[Eric Blake]

On 1/15/19 4:24 AM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:

> I think the problem is that
> migrate_params_check checks a MigrationParameters
> 
> while the QMP command gives us a MigrateSetParameters; but we also use
> migrate_params_check for the global check you added (8b0b29dc) which is
> against migrationParameters; so that's why migrate_params_check takes
> a MigrationParameters.
> 
> It's horrible we've got stuff duped so much.

Indeed.

> 
> However, I don't like this fix because if someone later was to add
> a test for tls parameters to migrate_params_check, then they would be
> confused why the hostname/creds weren't checked.
> So while we have migrate_params_test_apply, it should cover all
> parameters.
> 
> I think a cleaner check would be to write a MigrateParameters_free
> that free'd any strings, and call that in qmp_migrate_set_parameters
> on both exit paths.

We already have it; it's named qapi_free_MigrationParameters(),
generated in qapi-types-migration.h.

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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
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