From: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>,
Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>, Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>,
Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] tests/qtest/tpm-util.c: Free memory with correct free function
Date: Tue, 04 May 2021 09:44:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735v2q45e.fsf@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210503165525.26221-2-peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:
> tpm_util_migration_start_qemu() allocates memory with g_strdup_printf()
> but frees it with free() rather than g_free(), which provokes Coverity
> complaints (CID 1432379, 1432350). Use the correct free function.
>
> Fixes: Coverity CID 1432379, CID 1432350
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> ---
> With newer glib (2.46 and up) g_free() is guaranteed to be the same
> as free(), but matching things up is neater anyway.
> ---
> tests/qtest/tpm-util.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tests/qtest/tpm-util.c b/tests/qtest/tpm-util.c
> index b70cc32d600..3a40ff3f96c 100644
> --- a/tests/qtest/tpm-util.c
> +++ b/tests/qtest/tpm-util.c
> @@ -289,6 +289,6 @@ void tpm_util_migration_start_qemu(QTestState **src_qemu,
>
> *dst_qemu = qtest_init(dst_qemu_args);
>
> - free(src_qemu_args);
> - free(dst_qemu_args);
> + g_free(src_qemu_args);
> + g_free(dst_qemu_args);
> }
The more modern approach would be to use g_autofree but this works given
we aren't dealing with multiple exits:
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
--
Alex Bennée
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-04 8:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-03 16:55 [PATCH 0/3] tests: three easy Coverity fixes Peter Maydell
2021-05-03 16:55 ` [PATCH 1/3] tests/qtest/tpm-util.c: Free memory with correct free function Peter Maydell
2021-05-03 16:59 ` Stefan Berger
2021-05-04 8:44 ` Alex Bennée [this message]
2021-05-03 16:55 ` [PATCH 2/3] tests/qtest/rtc-test: Remove pointless NULL check Peter Maydell
2021-05-04 5:43 ` Thomas Huth
2021-05-04 8:47 ` Alex Bennée
2021-05-03 16:55 ` [PATCH 3/3] tests: Avoid side effects inside g_assert() arguments Peter Maydell
2021-05-03 17:14 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-05-04 7:18 ` Thomas Huth
2021-05-04 8:46 ` Peter Maydell
2021-05-04 8:48 ` Alex Bennée
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