Bug 789220

Summary:	memory leak on client programming failure path
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Alex Jia <ajia>
Component:	libvirt	Assignee:	Alex Jia <ajia>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	6.3	CC:	acathrow, dyuan, mshao, mzhan, rwu, veillard
Target Milestone:	rc
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	libvirt-0.9.10-1.el6	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2012-06-20 06:48:10 UTC	Type:	---
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Description Alex Jia 2012-02-10 05:54:40 UTC

Description of problem:
Memory leak on client programming failure path.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
# rpm -q libvirt
libvirt-0.9.10-0rc2.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
# valgrind -v --leak-check=full virsh -c qemu:

Note, give a incomplete qemu/xen URI etc.
  
Actual results:

==7373== 40 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 7 of 26
==7373==    at 0x4A04A28: calloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:467)
==7373==    by 0x4C72C9D: virAlloc (memory.c:101)
==7373==    by 0x4D2FAE8: virNetClientProgramNew (virnetclientprogram.c:60)
==7373==    by 0x4D1F034: doRemoteOpen (remote_driver.c:658)
==7373==    by 0x4D213EF: remoteOpen (remote_driver.c:871)
==7373==    by 0x4CEDCA0: do_open (libvirt.c:1196)
==7373==    by 0x4CEEDC5: virConnectOpenAuth (libvirt.c:1422)
==7373==    by 0x423447: main (virsh.c:18526)
==7373== 
==7373== 40 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 8 of 26
==7373==    at 0x4A04A28: calloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:467)
==7373==    by 0x4C72C9D: virAlloc (memory.c:101)
==7373==    by 0x4D2FAE8: virNetClientProgramNew (virnetclientprogram.c:60)
==7373==    by 0x4D1F057: doRemoteOpen (remote_driver.c:664)
==7373==    by 0x4D213EF: remoteOpen (remote_driver.c:871)
==7373==    by 0x4CEDCA0: do_open (libvirt.c:1196)
==7373==    by 0x4CEEDC5: virConnectOpenAuth (libvirt.c:1422)
==7373==    by 0x423447: main (virsh.c:18526)
==7373== 
==7373== LEAK SUMMARY:
==7373==    definitely lost: 80 bytes in 2 blocks

Expected results:
fix client memory leaks on failure path.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Alex Jia 2012-02-10 05:55:43 UTC

The patch has been sent to upstream and wait for review:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-February/msg00519.html

Comment 2 Alex Jia 2012-02-10 07:24:04 UTC

The path has been ACKed and pushed:

commit 6d514728cc88a0df4c2d334c771fdd9122f46b15
Author: Alex Jia <ajia>
Date:   Fri Feb 10 13:26:29 2012 +0800

    rpc: Plug memory leaks on doRemoteOpen() failure path
    
    Detected by valgrind. Leaks are introduced in commit c1b2264.
    
    * src/remote/remote_driver.c (doRemoteOpen): free client program memory in failure path.
    
    * How to reproduce?
    % valgrind -v --leak-check=full virsh -c qemu:

Comment 4 xhu 2012-02-15 06:38:05 UTC

Reproduce it with libvirt-0.9.10-0rc2.el6.x86_64.
Verify it with libvirt-0.9.10-1.el6 and it passed.

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2012-06-20 06:48:10 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0748.html