Re: [PATCH] daemon: plug a memory leak

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On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 09:50:40AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 12/13/2010 08:59 AM, Laine Stump wrote:
> > On 12/10/2010 07:29 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> >> * daemon/libvirtd.c (qemudFreeClient): Avoid a leak.
> >> (qemudDispatchServer): Avoid null dereference.
> >> ---
> >>
> >> I keep finding more of these.
> >>
> > 
> > ACK.
> 
> Thanks; pushed.
> 
> > 
> > Have you looked into some of the other stuff in the qemud_client struct?
> > For example, nothing inside #ifdef HAVE_SASL gets freed during
> > qemudFreeClient(). Quickly looking at the use of those items, it appears
> > it might be possible to be freeing up the client struct when one of
> > those is non-NULL, but I didn't read very carefully...
> 
> I saw that in code inspection as well, but have not yet seen it show up
> in a valgrind run (that's not to say it is leak-free, so much as I
> haven't yet exercised libvirt under the right scenarios to trigger the
> use of sasl in the first place).  So there may indeed be a leak, and I
> don't know how hard it would be to chase it down.
> 
> I'd almost rather see danpb's rewrite to move all SASL handling into new
> server/client wrappers (right now, it's duplicated across daemon and
> remote handling), then double check that the refactored code correctly
> cleans up SASL data.

I've re-written all the SASL auth code from scratch in a shared
module between client + server. All the SASL I/O layer is also
being pushed down into a shared socket module. This will make
it possible to actually unit test >95% of the RPC code without
actually running daemons/drivers.

Regards,
Daniel

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