Description of problem: There is memory leak in virtlogd Version-Release number of selected component: # rpm -q libvirt libvirt-1.3.2-1.fc24_v1.3.1_79_g63e15ad.x86_64 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. # valgrind --leak-check=full virtlogd --timeout=30 ==2118== Memcheck, a memory error detector ==2118== Copyright (C) 2002-2015, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al. ==2118== Using Valgrind-3.11.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info ==2118== Command: virtlogd --timeout=30 ==2118== ==2118== ==2118== HEAP SUMMARY: ==2118== in use at exit: 15,774 bytes in 330 blocks ==2118== total heap usage: 1,910 allocs, 1,580 frees, 246,957 bytes allocated ==2118== ==2118== 27 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 23 of 63 ==2118== at 0x4C2DC50: malloc (in /usr/lib64/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so) ==2118== by 0x7784C89: strdup (strdup.c:42) ==2118== by 0x16065E: virStrdup (virstring.c:726) ==2118== by 0x123829: virLogDaemonConfigFilePath (log_daemon_config.c:100) ==2118== by 0x12256C: main (log_daemon.c:1014) ==2118== ==2118== 88 (32 direct, 56 indirect) bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 44 of 63 ==2118== at 0x4C2F9C7: calloc (in /usr/lib64/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so) ==2118== by 0x13A333: virAlloc (viralloc.c:144) ==2118== by 0x1238FE: virLogDaemonConfigNew (log_daemon_config.c:127) ==2118== by 0x121474: main (log_daemon.c:1006) ==2118== ==2118== LEAK SUMMARY: ==2118== definitely lost: 59 bytes in 2 blocks ==2118== indirectly lost: 56 bytes in 1 blocks ==2118== possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==2118== still reachable: 15,659 bytes in 327 blocks ==2118== suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==2118== Reachable blocks (those to which a pointer was found) are not shown. ==2118== To see them, rerun with: --leak-check=full --show-leak-kinds=all ==2118== ==2118== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v ==2118== ERROR SUMMARY: 2 errors from 2 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0) Actual results: As step1 shown, there is memory leak in virtlogd Expected results: No memory leak.
Sent a patch upstream: http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2016-April/msg00474.html
commit cdced0128a45fb44c687325376311dabb1116324 Author: Cole Robinson <crobinso> Date: Sun Apr 10 19:19:25 2016 -0400 virtlogd: Fix a couple minor memory leaks