Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER Hypervisor.
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Eric Blake a595a00572 blockjob: avoid memory leak during block pivot
Valgrind caught a memory leak:

==2018== 9 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 143 of 927
==2018==    at 0x4A0645D: malloc (in /usr/lib64/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
==2018==    by 0x8C42369: strdup (strdup.c:42)
==2018==    by 0x50EACC9: virStrdup (virstring.c:676)
==2018==    by 0x50E79E5: virStorageSourceCopy (virstoragefile.c:1845)
==2018==    by 0x20A3FAA7: qemuDomainBlockCommit (qemu_driver.c:15620)
==2018==    by 0x51DC6B2: virDomainBlockCommit (libvirt.c:20092)

I traced it to the fact that blockcopy and blockcommit end up
reparsing a backing chain on pivot, but the chain parsing code
doesn't gracefully handle the case where the backing file is
already known.

I'm not exactly sure when this was introduced, but suspect that the
refactoring in commit 9944b71 and friends that moved towards probing
in-place rather than into a temporary structure are part of the cause.

* src/util/virstoragefile.c (virStorageFileGetMetadataInternal):
Don't leak any prior value.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2014-08-07 12:17:02 -06:00
.gnulib@2d280742a9 build: fix gnulib build for mingw 2014-07-09 16:09:17 -06:00
build-aux Require spaces around equality comparisons 2014-03-18 11:29:44 +01:00
daemon daemon: Fix indentation in libvirtd.c 2014-08-07 11:03:31 +02:00
docs docs: use unique dev names in <disk> examples 2014-08-07 11:12:00 -06:00
examples domtop: Remove unused variable 2014-08-04 14:40:52 +02:00
gnulib maint: update to latest gnulib 2014-01-01 06:02:47 -07:00
include lib: Introduce flag VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_REBASE_RELATIVE 2014-07-08 11:51:06 +02:00
m4 build: prefer -fstack-protector-strong to -all 2014-06-12 08:16:03 +02:00
po Release of libvirt-1.2.7 2014-08-03 08:55:15 -04:00
src blockjob: avoid memory leak during block pivot 2014-08-07 12:17:02 -06:00
tests Fix a crash when cloning a volume with no backing store 2014-08-01 15:42:28 +02:00
tools virsh: clean up attach-interface paragraph in man page 2014-08-07 13:04:53 -04:00
.ctags maint: Make ctags work out of the box 2013-07-18 08:47:21 +02:00
.dir-locals.el build: avoid tabs that failed syntax-check 2012-09-06 09:43:46 -06:00
.gitignore examples: Introduce domtop 2014-07-18 16:39:54 +02:00
.gitmodules make .gnulib a submodule 2009-07-08 16:17:51 +02:00
.mailmap Autogenerate AUTHORS 2012-10-19 12:44:56 -04:00
AUTHORS.in Added myself in AUTHORS.in 2014-07-23 16:23:46 +02:00
autobuild.sh Disable libvirtd by default when building on Win32 2014-04-29 11:30:32 +01:00
autogen.sh maint: detect VPATH builds when checking for gnulib update 2014-06-04 16:06:55 -06:00
bootstrap maint: update to latest gnulib 2014-01-01 06:02:47 -07:00
bootstrap.conf Add helpers for getting env vars in a setuid environment 2013-10-21 14:03:52 +01:00
cfg.mk maint: simplify some syntax check exemptions 2014-07-23 14:00:15 -06:00
ChangeLog-old Fix typos in src/* 2014-04-21 16:49:08 -06:00
config-post.h build: fix build of virt-login-shell on systems with older gnutls 2013-10-22 09:41:50 -06:00
configure.ac Post-release version bump for new dev cycle 2014-08-04 07:33:37 -06:00
COPYING maint: follow recommended practice for using LGPL 2013-05-20 14:15:21 -06:00
COPYING.LESSER maint: follow recommended practice for using LGPL 2013-05-20 14:15:21 -06:00
HACKING docs: Fix broken link in the HACKING page 2014-07-04 18:28:24 +02:00
libvirt-lxc.pc.in Add pkg-config files for libvirt-qemu & libvirt-lxc 2014-06-23 16:17:27 +01:00
libvirt-qemu.pc.in Add pkg-config files for libvirt-qemu & libvirt-lxc 2014-06-23 16:17:27 +01:00
libvirt.pc.in Add pkg-config files for libvirt-qemu & libvirt-lxc 2014-06-23 16:17:27 +01:00
libvirt.spec.in Release of libvirt-1.2.7 2014-08-03 08:55:15 -04:00
Makefile.am examples: Introduce domtop 2014-07-18 16:39:54 +02:00
Makefile.nonreentrant maint: use LGPL correctly 2013-05-20 14:03:48 -06:00
mingw-libvirt.spec.in build: package .pc files for mingw64 2014-07-09 16:45:15 -06:00
README Correct typos in the documentation (Atsushi SAKAI) 2008-01-24 10:15:13 +00:00
README-hacking docs: update README-hacking 2014-05-06 16:20:24 -06:00
run.in Add PKG_CONFIG_PATH to run.in script. 2014-06-26 14:32:35 +01:00
TODO Update todo list file to point at bugzilla/website 2010-10-13 16:45:26 +01:00

         LibVirt : simple API for virtualization

  Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.

Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>