Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 769224
memory leak when run 'virsh domxml-to-native'
Last modified: 2012-06-20 02:39:27 EDT
Description of problem: A quite big leak on cmdDomXMLToNative function. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): # rpm -qf /usr/bin/virsh libvirt-client-0.9.8-1.el6.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. virsh dumpxml ${guest} > foo.xml 2. valgrind -v --leak-check=full virsh domxml-to-native qemu-argv foo.xml 3. check 'LEAK SUMMARY' section Actual results: ==7409== 8,193 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 31 of 33 ==7409== at 0x4A05FDE: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:236) ==7409== by 0x4A06167: realloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:525) ==7409== by 0x4C7510B: virReallocN (memory.c:161) ==7409== by 0x4C84679: virFileReadLimFD (util.c:394) ==7409== by 0x4C84815: virFileReadAll (util.c:455) ==7409== by 0x41A7AF: cmdDomXMLToNative (virsh.c:5578) ==7409== by 0x414892: vshCommandRun (virsh.c:16463) ==7409== by 0x425633: main (virsh.c:17970) ==7409== ==7409== LEAK SUMMARY: ==7409== definitely lost: 8,193 bytes in 1 blocks ==7409== indirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==7409== possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==7409== still reachable: 127,128 bytes in 1,347 blocks Expected results: avoid memory leak. Additional info:
Patch for upstream: http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-December/msg00875.html
commit ea964658af7a54216e3c7c3ee2e0d2ea719ba018 Author: Alex Jia <ajia@redhat.com> Date: Tue Dec 20 18:33:52 2011 +0800 virsh: plug mem leaks in domxml-*-native Detected by valgrind. Leaks introduced in commit 4d5383f. * tools/virsh.c: fix memory leaks on cmdDomXMLFromNative and cmdDomXMLToNative. * how to reproduce? % virsh dumpxml ${guest} > foo.xml % valgrind -v --leak-check=full virsh domxml-from-native qemu-argv foo.xml % valgrind -v --leak-check=full virsh domxml-to-native qemu-argv foo.xml
*** Bug 769225 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #3) > *** Bug 769225 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Be sure to also test domxml-from-native when verifying this bug, since it was a single patch for both leaks.
Reproduce it with libvirt-0.9.8-1.el6.x86_64. Verify it with libvirt-0.9.9-1.el6 and it passed.
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