Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU xen coverity issues

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 15.02.2019 um 17:20 hat Paul Durrant geschrieben:
> > -----Original Message-----
> [snip]
> > >
> > > (5) CID 1398649: resource leak in xen_block_drive_create():
> > >
> > > In hw/block/xen-block.c xen_block_drive_create() Coverity
> > > complains that the call "driver_layer = qdict_new()" allocates
> > > memory that's leaked because we don't save the pointer anywhere
> > > but don't deallocate it before the end of the function either.
> > > Coverity is not great at understanding our refcounting objects,
> > > but this does look like either we're missing a qobject_unref()
> > > or something should be keeping hold of the dictionary. Probably
> > > best to ask a block layer expert.
> > 
> > AFAICT nothing will consume the dictionary so it does appear that we're
> > missing an unref here.
> 
> Testing proves me wrong... This one is a false positive.

Hm, but where is it freed?

xen_block_blockdev_add() only feeds it to an input visitor, which
doesn't take ownership of the QDict (and in the first error path, it
hasn't even done that yet).

Kevin