Matthias Bolte wrote: ... > The original code also contains a domain pointer reference leak. > vboxDomainUndefine does not unref the domain pointer, so there is a > virUnrefDomain call missing in the error case. So this could be > changed to > > if (vboxDomainCreate(dom) < 0) { > vboxDomainUndefine(dom); > virUnrefDomain(dom); > return NULL; > } > > return dom; > > But I think this is worth a separate commit. Indeed. Here's the proposed patch: >From e47e126afe21b55a3f94a4cde3d9e0b4616de9cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <meyering@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 17:45:46 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] vbox_tmpl.c: don't leak a domain pointer upon failure to create * src/vbox/vbox_tmpl.c (vboxDomainCreateXML): "Unref" the domain upon failure. Patch by Mattias Bolte. --- src/vbox/vbox_tmpl.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/vbox/vbox_tmpl.c b/src/vbox/vbox_tmpl.c index 5889f32..07696c0 100644 --- a/src/vbox/vbox_tmpl.c +++ b/src/vbox/vbox_tmpl.c @@ -1004,6 +1004,7 @@ static virDomainPtr vboxDomainCreateXML(virConnectPtr conn, const char *xml, if (vboxDomainCreate(dom) < 0) { vboxDomainUndefine(dom); + virUnrefDomain(dom); return NULL; } -- 1.6.6.387.g2649b1 -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list