Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] exec: fix memory leak in find_max_supported_pagesize()

[Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>]

On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 11:18:31 +0200
Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 11:09:46 +0200
> Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org> wrote:
> 
> > The string returned by object_property_get_str() is dynamically allocated.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
> > ---
> >  exec.c |    1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/exec.c b/exec.c
> > index c09bd93df31e..02b1efebb7c3 100644
> > --- a/exec.c
> > +++ b/exec.c
> > @@ -1495,6 +1495,7 @@ static int find_max_supported_pagesize(Object *obj, void *opaque)
> >          mem_path = object_property_get_str(obj, "mem-path", NULL);
> >          if (mem_path) {
> >              long hpsize = qemu_mempath_getpagesize(mem_path);
> > +            g_free(mem_path);
> >              if (hpsize < *hpsize_min) {
> >                  *hpsize_min = hpsize;
> >              }
> >   
> 
> Personally, I'd probably do the g_free() at the end of the if
> (mem_path) branch, but this works as well.
> 

I usually prefer to free the string as soon as it isn't needed
anymore... matter of taste :)

> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>