Re: [libvirt] [PATCH v1 13/32] util: netdevip: use VIR_AUTOPTR for aggregate types

On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 11:31:28PM +0530, Sukrit Bhatnagar wrote: > By making use of GNU C's cleanup attribute handled by the > VIR_AUTOPTR macro for declaring aggregate pointer variables, > majority of the calls to *Free functions can be dropped, which > in turn leads to getting rid of most of our cleanup sections. > > Signed-off-by: Sukrit Bhatnagar <skrtbhtngr(a)gmail.com&gt; > --- > src/util/virnetdevip.c | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------- > 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/src/util/virnetdevip.c b/src/util/virnetdevip.c > index 8f1081b..ca206e2 100644 > --- a/src/util/virnetdevip.c > +++ b/src/util/virnetdevip.c > @@ -634,19 +634,22 @@ virNetDevIPCheckIPv6Forwarding(void) > } > > if (!valid) { > - virBuffer buf = VIR_BUFFER_INITIALIZER; > + VIR_AUTOPTR(virBuffer) buf = NULL; > + > + if (VIR_ALLOC(buf) < 0) > + goto cleanup; Hmm, this will actually leak memory because @buf is never going to be freed, worse, we'll assign NULL to it.