Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Remove invalid parsing of pty path from XML for PTY type chardevs

While running valgrind on the qemuhotplugtest, one of the many memory leaks detected are: ==3915== 12 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 36 of 129 ==3915== at 0x4A0887C: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:270) ==3915== by 0x34268AF275: xmlStrndup (in /usr/lib64/libxml2.so.2.9.1) ==3915== by 0x4CCC3BB: virDomainChrSourceDefParseXML (domain_conf.c:6957) ==3915== by 0x4CD6A29: virDomainChrDefParseXML (domain_conf.c:7243) ==3915== by 0x4CEC0C9: virDomainDeviceDefParse (domain_conf.c:9616) ==3915== by 0x41D14F: testQemuHotplug (qemuhotplugtest.c:247) ==3915== by 0x41E421: virtTestRun (testutils.c:139) ==3915== by 0x41C6E3: mymain (qemuhotplugtest.c:428) ==3915== by 0x41EAB2: virtTestMain (testutils.c:600) ==3915== by 0x341F421A04: (below main) (libc-start.c:225) ==3915== The main reason behind this error is that for the PTY type chardevs, it is not valid to specify or parse a pty path from the XML. This is an output-only attribute, not under user control. Hence, the parsing code inside qemuMonitorJSONAttachCharDev() was wrong. Refer the discussion: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2013-November/msg01255.html tests/qemumonitorjsontest.c * Remove unwanted parsing code inside qemuMonitorJSONAttachCharDev src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c: * Remove erraneous testcase --- src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c | 20 -------------------- tests/qemumonitorjsontest.c | 16 ---------------- 2 files changed, 36 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c b/src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c index ec3b958..1bfeef0 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c @@ -5368,26 +5368,6 @@ qemuMonitorJSONAttachCharDev(qemuMonitorPtr mon, if (qemuMonitorJSONCheckError(cmd, reply) < 0) goto cleanup; - if (chr->type == VIR_DOMAIN_CHR_TYPE_PTY) { - virJSONValuePtr data; - const char *path; - - if (!(data = virJSONValueObjectGet(reply, "return"))) { - virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, "%s", - _("chardev-add reply was missing return data")); - goto cleanup; - } - - if (!(path = virJSONValueObjectGetString(data, "pty"))) { - virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, "%s", - _("chardev-add reply was missing pty path")); - goto cleanup; - } - - if (VIR_STRDUP(chr->data.file.path, path) < 0) - goto cleanup; - } - ret = 0;