Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qapi: fix memory leak in QmpOutputVisitor

[Eric Blake]

On 10/18/2016 06:13 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 10/18/2016 04:17 AM, Pino Toscano wrote:
>> qmp_output_start_struct() and qmp_output_start_list() create a new
>> QObject (QDict, QList) and push it to the stack of the QmpOutputVisitor,
>> where it is saved as 'value'.  When freeing the iterator in
>> qmp_output_free(), these values are never freed properly.
> 
> Do any of the tests (perhaps run under valgrind) show this leak? If not,
> maybe we should enhance their coverage.
> 
>>
>> The simple solution is to qobject_decref() them.
>> ---
>>  qapi/qmp-output-visitor.c | 1 +
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

except this should be done against v2, where you had S-o-B :)

> 
>>
>> diff --git a/qapi/qmp-output-visitor.c b/qapi/qmp-output-visitor.c
>> index 9e3b67c..eedf256 100644
>> --- a/qapi/qmp-output-visitor.c
>> +++ b/qapi/qmp-output-visitor.c
>> @@ -220,6 +220,7 @@ static void qmp_output_free(Visitor *v)
>>      while (!QSLIST_EMPTY(&qov->stack)) {
>>          e = QSLIST_FIRST(&qov->stack);
>>          QSLIST_REMOVE_HEAD(&qov->stack, node);
>> +        qobject_decref(e->value);
>>          g_free(e);
>>      }
>>  
>>
> 

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
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