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Re: [Xen-devel] [Patch] [libxc] add missing free in xc_finish_mmu_updates to avoid memory leak
- To: Stephan Creutz <stephan.creutz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 22:42:39 +0100
- Delivery-date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:40:28 -0700
- List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>
- Thread-index: Acd4lH9TvdI5YOSHEduLoQAWy6hiGQ==
- Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] [Patch] [libxc] add missing free in xc_finish_mmu_updates to avoid memory leak
On 6/4/07 14:45, "Stephan Creutz" <stephan.creutz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> the following patch adds a missing free to xc_finish_mmu_updates,
> otherwise the memory allocated by xc_init_mmu_updates gets never freed.
The only user of this interface calls free() on that memory itself. It also
calls finish_mmu_update() more than once on the same mmu structure, so
freeing it in finish_mmu_update() would not work. Probably best we rename
xc_init_mmu_updates() to xc_alloc_mmu_updates(), finish_mmu_update to
flush_mmu_updates(), and document the need for explicit free() in the header
file. I'll do this.
-- Keir
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