From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>,
Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vhost: fix double free on device stop
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:40:33 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110621174033.GB17410@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110621171044.GA16869@redhat.com>
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 08:10:44PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> vhost dev stop failed to clear the log field.
> Typically not an issue as dev start overwrites this field,
> but if logging gets disabled before the following start,
> it doesn't so this causes a double free.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Um, this fixed double free but added another one.
Not sure why did it work for me :(
Sent a fixed v2
> ---
> hw/vhost.c | 4 ++++
> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/hw/vhost.c b/hw/vhost.c
> index 80f771e..1fbf2e5 100644
> --- a/hw/vhost.c
> +++ b/hw/vhost.c
> @@ -784,5 +784,9 @@ void vhost_dev_stop(struct vhost_dev *hdev, VirtIODevice *vdev)
>
> hdev->started = false;
> qemu_free(hdev->log);
> + if (hdev->log) {
> + qemu_free(hdev->log);
> + }
> + hdev->log = NULL;
> hdev->log_size = 0;
> }
> --
> 1.7.5.53.gc233e
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2011-06-21 17:10 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vhost: fix double free on device stop Michael S. Tsirkin
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