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From: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
To: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: [PATCH 06/19] libxl: Fix leak of ctx->lock
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:59:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1334149181-2834-7-git-send-email-ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1334149181-2834-1-git-send-email-ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>

A mutex created with pthread_mutex_init, like ctx->lock, may need to
be destroyed with pthread_mutex_destroy.

Also, previously, if libxl__init_recursive_mutex failed, the nascent
ctx would be leaked.  Add some comments which will hopefully make
these kind of mistakes less likely in future.

Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
---
 tools/libxl/libxl.c |   17 +++++++++++++----
 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/libxl/libxl.c b/tools/libxl/libxl.c
index dd948a8..f41b62f 100644
--- a/tools/libxl/libxl.c
+++ b/tools/libxl/libxl.c
@@ -39,10 +39,7 @@ int libxl_ctx_alloc(libxl_ctx **pctx, int version,
     memset(ctx, 0, sizeof(libxl_ctx));
     ctx->lg = lg;
 
-    if (libxl__init_recursive_mutex(ctx, &ctx->lock) < 0) {
-        LIBXL__LOG(ctx, LIBXL__LOG_ERROR, "Failed to initialize mutex");
-        return ERROR_FAIL;
-    }
+    /* First initialise pointers (cannot fail) */
 
     LIBXL_TAILQ_INIT(&ctx->occurred);
 
@@ -61,6 +58,16 @@ int libxl_ctx_alloc(libxl_ctx **pctx, int version,
     LIBXL_TAILQ_INIT(&ctx->death_list);
     libxl__ev_xswatch_init(&ctx->death_watch);
 
+    /* The mutex is special because we can't idempotently destroy it */
+
+    if (libxl__init_recursive_mutex(ctx, &ctx->lock) < 0) {
+        LIBXL__LOG(ctx, LIBXL__LOG_ERROR, "Failed to initialize mutex");
+        free(ctx);
+        ctx = 0;
+    }
+
+    /* Now ctx is safe for ctx_free; failures simply set rc and "goto out" */
+
     rc = libxl__poller_init(ctx, &ctx->poller_app);
     if (rc) goto out;
 
@@ -150,6 +157,8 @@ int libxl_ctx_free(libxl_ctx *ctx)
 
     discard_events(&ctx->occurred);
 
+    pthread_mutex_destroy(&ctx->lock);
+
     GC_FREE;
     free(ctx);
     return 0;
-- 
1.7.2.5

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-04-11 12:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-11 12:59 [PATCH v5 00/19] libxl: improvements, prep for subprocess handling Ian Jackson
2012-04-11 12:59 ` [PATCH 01/19] .gitignore: Add a missing file Ian Jackson
2012-04-11 12:59 ` [PATCH 02/19] libxl: ao: allow immediate completion Ian Jackson
2012-04-11 12:59 ` [PATCH 03/19] libxl: fix hang due to libxl__initiate_device_remove Ian Jackson
2012-04-11 12:59 ` [PATCH 04/19] libxl: Fix eventloop_iteration over-locking Ian Jackson
2012-04-11 12:59 ` [PATCH 05/19] libxl: remove poller from list in libxl__poller_get Ian Jackson
2012-04-11 12:59 ` Ian Jackson [this message]
2012-04-11 12:59 ` [PATCH 07/19] tools: Correct PTHREAD options in config/StdGNU.mk Ian Jackson
2012-04-11 12:59 ` [PATCH 08/19] libxl: Use PTHREAD_CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, LIBS Ian Jackson
2012-04-11 12:59 ` [PATCH 09/19] tools: Use PTHREAD_CFLAGS, _LDFLAGS, _LIBS Ian Jackson
2012-04-11 12:59 ` [PATCH 10/19] libxl: Crash (more sensibly) on malloc failure Ian Jackson
2012-04-11 12:59 ` [PATCH 11/19] libxl: Make libxl__zalloc et al tolerate a NULL gc Ian Jackson
2012-04-11 12:59 ` [PATCH 12/19] libxl: Introduce some convenience macros Ian Jackson
2012-04-11 12:59 ` [PATCH 13/19] libxl: include <ctype.h> and introduce CTYPE helper macro Ian Jackson
2012-04-11 12:59 ` [PATCH 14/19] libxl: Provide libxl_string_list_length Ian Jackson
2012-04-11 12:59 ` [PATCH 15/19] libxl: include <_libxl_paths.h> in libxl_internal.h Ian Jackson
2012-04-11 12:59 ` [PATCH 16/19] libxl: abolish libxl_ctx_postfork Ian Jackson
2012-04-11 12:59 ` [PATCH 17/19] libxl: libxl_event.c:beforepoll_internal, REQUIRE_FDS Ian Jackson
2012-04-11 12:59 ` [PATCH 18/19] libxl: Protect fds with CLOEXEC even with forking threads Ian Jackson
2012-04-11 12:59 ` [PATCH 19/19] libxl: provide STATE_AO_GC Ian Jackson
2012-04-11 13:35 ` [PATCH v5 00/19] libxl: improvements, prep for subprocess handling Ian Jackson

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