Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Fix memory leak in virCommandRun()

On 12/07/2010 11:10 PM, Hu Tao wrote: Good catch, but not quite right. I inadvertently disabled logging abilities with commit ee11729d7, and in so doing, outbuf and errbuf were never populated because virCommandProcessIO was skipped. Here's a better patch: From 9ce936ee395e967551e36598ff0650315ac7686e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Blake <eblake(a)redhat.com&gt; Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 08:03:29 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] command: avoid memory leak * src/util/command.c (virCommandRun): Fix yesterday's regression on logging, and avoid leaking log-only output captures. Reported by Hu Tao. --- src/util/command.c | 4 ++++ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/util/command.c b/src/util/command.c index e39e949..089e0bd 100644 --- a/src/util/command.c +++ b/src/util/command.c @@ -964,10 +964,12 @@ virCommandRun(virCommandPtr cmd, int *exitstatus) if (!cmd->outfdptr) { cmd->outfdptr = &cmd->outfd; cmd->outbuf = &outbuf; + string_io = true; } if (!cmd->errfdptr) { cmd->errfdptr = &cmd->errfd; cmd->errbuf = &errbuf; + string_io = true; } if (virCommandRunAsync(cmd, NULL) < 0) { @@ -1009,6 +1011,7 @@ virCommandRun(virCommandPtr cmd, int *exitstatus) VIR_DEBUG("ignoring failed close on fd %d", tmpfd); cmd->outfdptr = NULL; cmd->outbuf = NULL; + VIR_FREE(outbuf); } if (cmd->errbuf == &errbuf) { int tmpfd = cmd->errfd; @@ -1016,6 +1019,7 @@ virCommandRun(virCommandPtr cmd, int *exitstatus) VIR_DEBUG("ignoring failed close on fd %d", tmpfd); cmd->errfdptr = NULL; cmd->errbuf = NULL; + VIR_FREE(errbuf); } return ret; -- 1.7.3.2 -- Eric Blake eblake(a)redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org