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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.5] xl: fix two memory leaks



On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 09:34:47AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-11-30 at 21:54 +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> > There are two invocations of libxl_basename, which returns a malloc'ed
> > string. Those strings should be freed after used.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c |    9 +++++++--
> >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c b/tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c
> > index 9afef3f..716a865 100644
> > --- a/tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c
> > +++ b/tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c
> > @@ -920,6 +920,7 @@ static void parse_config_data(const char *config_source,
> >      int pci_permissive = 0;
> >      int pci_seize = 0;
> >      int i, e;
> > +    const char *basename;
> >  
> >      libxl_domain_create_info *c_info = &d_config->c_info;
> >      libxl_domain_build_info *b_info = &d_config->b_info;
> > @@ -1116,13 +1117,16 @@ static void parse_config_data(const char 
> > *config_source,
> >  
> >      switch(b_info->type) {
> >      case LIBXL_DOMAIN_TYPE_HVM:
> > -        if (!strcmp(libxl_basename(b_info->kernel), "hvmloader")) {
> > +        basename = libxl_basename(b_info->kernel);
> > +        if (!strcmp(basename, "hvmloader")) {
> >              fprintf(stderr, "WARNING: you seem to be using \"kernel\" "
> >                      "directive to override HVM guest firmware. Ignore "
> >                      "that. Use \"firmware_override\" instead if you "
> >                      "really want a non-default firmware\n");
> >              b_info->kernel = NULL;
> >          }
> > +        free((void*)basename);
> 
> I think you should un-const the declaration (in both cases) rather than
> adding casts.
> 

Is it OK to change the declaration of a public API?

Wei.

> > +        basename = NULL;
> >  
> >          xlu_cfg_replace_string (config, "firmware_override",
> >                                  &b_info->u.hvm.firmware, 0);
> > @@ -7021,7 +7025,7 @@ int main_cpupoolcreate(int argc, char **argv)
> >      int config_len = 0;
> >      XLU_Config *config;
> >      const char *buf;
> > -    const char *name;
> > +    const char *name = NULL;
> >      uint32_t poolid;
> >      libxl_scheduler sched = 0;
> >      XLU_ConfigList *cpus;
> > @@ -7196,6 +7200,7 @@ out_cfg:
> >      xlu_cfg_destroy(config);
> >  out:
> >      free(config_data);
> > +    free((void*)name);
> >      return rc;
> >  }
> >  
> 

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