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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1 of 5] libxl: fix memory management in "xl netwo

To: Dave Scott <Dave.Scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1 of 5] libxl: fix memory management in "xl network-attach"
From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:30:15 +0100
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On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 13:26 +0100, Dave Scott wrote:
> # HG changeset patch
> # User David Scott <dave.scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> # Date 1301314652 -3600
> # Node ID 85361e3dab12827c6321931c9e09d02fb22578ee
> # Parent  a65612bcbb921e98a8843157bf365e4ab16e8144
> libxl: fix memory management in "xl network-attach"
> 
> The libxl_device_nic struct has strings which are initially strdup()ed
> and then free()ed in libxl_device_nic_destroy(). In the
> "network-attach" parser we need to free() the existing string and
> strdup((*argv) + N), rather than just copying the pointer.

Ideally we would have a parsing routine shared with the cfg file parser
but for now this is a definite improvement:

Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>

> 
> Signed-off-by: David Scott <dave.scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> diff -r a65612bcbb92 -r 85361e3dab12 tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c
> --- a/tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c        Fri Mar 25 09:03:17 2011 +0000
> +++ b/tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c        Mon Mar 28 13:17:32 2011 +0100
> @@ -4277,12 +4277,14 @@
>                  nic.mac[i] = val;
>              }
>          } else if (!strncmp("bridge=", *argv, 7)) {
> -            nic.bridge = (*argv) + 7;
> +            free(nic.bridge);
> +            nic.bridge = strdup((*argv) + 7);
>          } else if (!strncmp("ip=", *argv, 3)) {
>              free(nic.ip);
>              nic.ip = strdup((*argv) + 3);
>          } else if (!strncmp("script=", *argv, 6)) {
> -            nic.script = (*argv) + 6;
> +            free(nic.script);
> +            nic.script = strdup((*argv) + 6);
>          } else if (!strncmp("backend=", *argv, 8)) {
>              if(libxl_name_to_domid(&ctx, ((*argv) + 8), &val)) {
>                  fprintf(stderr, "Specified backend domain does not exist, 
> defaulting to Dom0\n");
> @@ -4290,9 +4292,11 @@
>              }
>              nic.backend_domid = val;
>          } else if (!strncmp("vifname=", *argv, 8)) {
> -            nic.ifname = (*argv) + 8;
> +            free(nic.ifname);
> +            nic.ifname = strdup((*argv) + 8);
>          } else if (!strncmp("model=", *argv, 6)) {
> -            nic.model = (*argv) + 6;
> +            free(nic.model);
> +            nic.model = strdup((*argv) + 6);
>          } else if (!strncmp("rate=", *argv, 5)) {
>          } else if (!strncmp("accel=", *argv, 6)) {
>          } else {
> 
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