Bug 528162

Summary: Fix memory leak in libvirtd in F12
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Component: libvirtAssignee: Mark McLoughlin <markmc>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2009-10-09 09:40:27 EDT 
Description of problem:

libvirtd in F12 leaks pretty bad when you make invalid
requests against the daemon.  For example, try doing

  # virsh dominfo 0

in a loop on a machine running qemu/kvm hypervisor.

Dan tells me that this is fixed by the following upstream
commit:

commit c6f1459eb998619ab21a92d9bb87341f26978181
Author: Matthias Bolte <matthias.bolte@googlemail.com>
Date:   Wed Sep 30 02:17:27 2009 +0200
     Fix memory leaks in libvirtd's message processing
http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=c6f1459eb998619ab21a92d9bb87341f26978181

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

libvirt-0.7.1-10.fc12.x86_64

How reproducible:

Run this command as root several times, or in a loop:

  virsh dominfo 0

Check the output of 'top' to see libvirtd growing in size.
Comment 1 Mark McLoughlin 2009-10-09 10:56:23 EDT 
* Fri Oct  9 2009 Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> - 0.7.1-11
- Fix libvirtd memory leak during error reply sending (#528162)
- Add several PCI hot-unplug typo fixes from upstream
Comment 2 Mark McLoughlin 2009-10-09 12:01:28 EDT 
tag request: https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/2429
Comment 3 Mark McLoughlin 2009-10-12 03:16:12 EDT 
tagged now for F12 GA
Comment 4 Richard W.M. Jones 2009-10-12 04:58:20 EDT 
I've confirmed that the -11 package fixes the bug I was seeing.