On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 03:15:14PM -0700, Nolan wrote:
> Fix a memory leak. No big deal, since it happens only a bounded # of
> times at startup (as far as I can tell) but it makes valgrind complain.
>
> I sent this here since qemu doesn't have the code in question (it
> allocates buf on the stack, and thus guess_disk_lchs() usually won't
> work with O_DIRECT).
Nolan,
block-raw-posix.c raw_pread() handles alignment for O_DIRECT, so it
seems the changes in qemu-kvm are now unnecessary. Can you send
a patch to match upstream QEMU, with the buf on stack?
TIA
>
> Signed-off-by: Nolan Leake nolan <at> sigbus.net
>
> diff --git a/qemu/block.c b/qemu/block.c
> index 7a469ed..3cdebcd 100644
> --- a/qemu/block.c
> +++ b/qemu/block.c
> @@ -771,8 +771,10 @@ static int guess_disk_lchs(BlockDriverState *bs,
> bdrv_get_geometry(bs, &nb_sectors);
>
> ret = bdrv_read(bs, 0, buf, 1);
> - if (ret < 0)
> + if (ret < 0) {
> + qemu_free(buf);
> return -1;
> + }
> /* test msdos magic */
> if (buf[510] != 0x55 || buf[511] != 0xaa) {
> qemu_free(buf);
>
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