2010/2/15 Jim Meyering <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Without this, it looked like every caller (there's only one;
> the other use is if-0'd out) could leak the result buffer.
>
> >From 8b8874b956c822562151cb90b1a8950d17b565ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Jim Meyering <meyering@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:22:38 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] uml_driver.c: avoid leak upon failure
>
> * src/uml/uml_driver.c (umlMonitorCommand): This function would
> sometimes return -1, yet fail to free the "reply" it had allocated.
> Hence, no caller would know to free the corresponding argument.
> When returning -1, be sure to free all allocated resources.
> ---
> src/uml/uml_driver.c | 7 +++++--
> 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/uml/uml_driver.c b/src/uml/uml_driver.c
> index 5049c92..10268db 100644
> --- a/src/uml/uml_driver.c
> +++ b/src/uml/uml_driver.c
> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
> /*
> * uml_driver.c: core driver methods for managing UML guests
> *
> - * Copyright (C) 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Red Hat, Inc.
> + * Copyright (C) 2006-2010 Red Hat, Inc.
> * Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Daniel P. Berrange
> *
> * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> @@ -757,7 +757,10 @@ static int umlMonitorCommand(virConnectPtr conn,
>
> VIR_DEBUG("Command reply is '%s'", NULLSTR(retdata));
>
> - *reply = retdata;
> + if (ret < 0)
> + VIR_FREE(retdata);
> + else
> + *reply = retdata;
>
> return ret;
>
> --
> 1.7.0.181.g41533
>
ACK.
Matthias
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