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Description of problem:
A quite big leak on cmdDomXMLFromNative 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-from-native qemu-argv foo.xml
3. check 'LEAK SUMMARY' section
  
Actual results:

==9724== 8,193 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 31 of 33
==9724==    at 0x4A05FDE: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:236)
==9724==    by 0x4A06167: realloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:525)
==9724==    by 0x4C7510B: virReallocN (memory.c:161)
==9724==    by 0x4C84679: virFileReadLimFD (util.c:394)
==9724==    by 0x4C84815: virFileReadAll (util.c:455)
==9724==    by 0x41A89F: cmdDomXMLFromNative (virsh.c:5532)
==9724==    by 0x414872: vshCommandRun (virsh.c:16464)
==9724==    by 0x425623: main (virsh.c:17971)
==9724==
==9724== LEAK SUMMARY:
==9724==    definitely lost: 8,193 bytes in 1 blocks
==9724==    indirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==9724==      possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==9724==    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

Since a single patch fixed both domxml-from-native and domxml-to-native, I'm closing this as a dup.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 769224 ***