On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 01:49:46PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 11:15:58AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 09:24:59PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
Otherwise we're leaking some 30+ symbols like
virAdmConnectClass virAdmConnectNew virConnectClass virConnectCloseCallbackDataClass virDomainClass ...
I marked the one symbol needed by the deamon as LIBVIRT_ADMIN_PRIVATE_<VERSION> for now.
How are you identifying those as leaked ?
I tripped on this by dpkg-gensymbols[1] which uses objdump.
objdump -w --dynamic-syms src/.libs/libvirt-admin.so | grep " g "
The g meaning global visibility. A similar result can be achieved with "nm -D".
IIRC, exports are those symbols marked with 'T' in the nm output:
[man nm] · The symbol type. At least the following types are used; others are, as well, depending on the object file format. If lowercase, the symbol is usually local; if uppercase, the symbol is global (external). There are however a few lowercase symbols that are shown for special global symbols ("u", "v" and "w").
"T" "t" The symbol is in the text (code) section. [/man]
# nm -a .libs/libvirt-admin.so | grep ' T ' 0000000000001c80 T virAdmConnectClose 00000000000017d0 T virAdmConnectOpen 0000000000001d30 T virAdmConnectRef
# nm -a .libs/libvirt-admin.so | grep virAdmConnectNew 00000000000037c0 t virAdmConnectNew
So, IIUC, that lowercase 't' means the symol is local, and exported.
I'm seeing
0000000000003f00 T virAdmConnectNew
so this is consistent with the above but different from what you're seeing. This binutils 2.25 in case this matters. I think having a
local: *;
Is a good think to have in any case.
Yeah, that's probably right. BTW, can you check libvirt-lxc.so and libvirt-qemu.so too as they don't have the 'local: *' bit in their syms files either AFAICT. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|