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* [PATCH v3 0/5] xenstore: fix memory leak of xenstored
@ 2016-07-19 11:30 Juergen Gross
  2016-07-19 11:30 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] xenstore: call each xenstored command function with temporary context Juergen Gross
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From: Juergen Gross @ 2016-07-19 11:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: xen-devel; +Cc: Juergen Gross, wei.liu2, ian.jackson

xenstored has a memory leak when setting watches: a no longer active
watch which fired in the past will still use some memory. This is
critical for long running connections to xenstored like the qemu
process serving as a qdisk backend for dom0. It will use some few
kB in xenstored for each domain create/destroy pair.

Fix this leak by using a temporary memory context for all allocations
in xenstored when firing a watch event.

Changes in V3:
- renamed temporary context parameter name and added comments in 
  patches 2-5 as requested by Wei Liu

Changes in V2:
- modified patch description as requested by Ian Jackson
- split up patch 2 as requested by Ian Jackson

Juergen Gross (5):
  xenstore: call each xenstored command function with temporary context
  xenstore: add explicit memory context parameter to get_parent()
  xenstore: add explicit memory context parameter to read_node()
  xenstore: add explicit memory context parameter to get_node()
  xenstore: use temporary memory context for firing watches

 tools/xenstore/xenstored_core.c        | 134 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 tools/xenstore/xenstored_core.h        |   4 +
 tools/xenstore/xenstored_domain.c      |  20 +++--
 tools/xenstore/xenstored_domain.h      |  10 +--
 tools/xenstore/xenstored_transaction.c |   5 +-
 tools/xenstore/xenstored_transaction.h |   2 +-
 tools/xenstore/xenstored_watch.c       |  22 ++++--
 tools/xenstore/xenstored_watch.h       |   3 +-
 8 files changed, 123 insertions(+), 77 deletions(-)

-- 
2.6.6


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