Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/9pfs: Fix potential memory leak and avoid reuse of freed memory

[Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>]

Am 16.06.2013 12:14, schrieb Stefan Weil:
> The leak was reported by cppcheck.
>
> Function proxy_init also calls g_free for ctx->fs_root.
> Avoid reuse of this memory by setting ctx->fs_root to NULL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
> ---
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure whether ctx->fs_root should also be freed in the error case.
> Please feel free to modify my patch if needed.
>
> Regards
> Stefan Weil
>
>  hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-proxy.c |    2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-proxy.c b/hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-proxy.c
> index 8ba2959..5f44bb7 100644
> --- a/hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-proxy.c
> +++ b/hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-proxy.c
> @@ -1153,10 +1153,12 @@ static int proxy_init(FsContext *ctx)
>          sock_id = atoi(ctx->fs_root);
>          if (sock_id < 0) {
>              fprintf(stderr, "socket descriptor not initialized\n");
> +            g_free(proxy);
>              return -1;
>          }
>      }
>      g_free(ctx->fs_root);
> +    ctx->fs_root = NULL;
>  
>      proxy->in_iovec.iov_base  = g_malloc(PROXY_MAX_IO_SZ + PROXY_HDR_SZ);
>      proxy->in_iovec.iov_len   = PROXY_MAX_IO_SZ + PROXY_HDR_SZ;


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