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blockjob: avoid memory leak during block pivot
authorEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Wed, 6 Aug 2014 20:48:59 +0000 (14:48 -0600)
committerEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Thu, 7 Aug 2014 18:17:02 +0000 (12:17 -0600)
commita595a005725f142e1a258d10f7647982efa3cfd8
tree714f4ec0c9914e3184f242495eeedee4091968ce
parent4cf531589abd28b283fb0b54b16ef354a87c57f5
blockjob: avoid memory leak during block pivot

Valgrind caught a memory leak:

==2018== 9 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 143 of 927
==2018==    at 0x4A0645D: malloc (in /usr/lib64/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
==2018==    by 0x8C42369: strdup (strdup.c:42)
==2018==    by 0x50EACC9: virStrdup (virstring.c:676)
==2018==    by 0x50E79E5: virStorageSourceCopy (virstoragefile.c:1845)
==2018==    by 0x20A3FAA7: qemuDomainBlockCommit (qemu_driver.c:15620)
==2018==    by 0x51DC6B2: virDomainBlockCommit (libvirt.c:20092)

I traced it to the fact that blockcopy and blockcommit end up
reparsing a backing chain on pivot, but the chain parsing code
doesn't gracefully handle the case where the backing file is
already known.

I'm not exactly sure when this was introduced, but suspect that the
refactoring in commit 9944b71 and friends that moved towards probing
in-place rather than into a temporary structure are part of the cause.

* src/util/virstoragefile.c (virStorageFileGetMetadataInternal):
Don't leak any prior value.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
src/util/virstoragefile.c