Re: [libvirt] [PATCH for v4.6.0] cgroups: Don't leave stale pointers around after virCgroupFree
On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 10:25:05AM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
One of the attributes that original virCgroupFree() had was it
set passed pointer to NULL. For instance in the following code
the latter call would be practically a no-op:
virCgroupFree(&var);
virCgroupFree(&var);
However, this behaviour of the function was changed in
0f80c71822d824 but corresponding 'var = NULL' lines were not
added leading to double free:
Sigh, can we please just revert that change. It is going in completely the
oppposite of what we should be doing. We want to change more functions to
take a ptr to a ptr, precisely because it avoids this double-free problem.
Regards,
Daniel
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