From b6d003dbee81f1bf419c7cceec0c4c358184a601 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefano Garzarella Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 19:02:55 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] cutils: fix memory leak in get_relocated_path() MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit get_relocated_path() allocates a GString object and returns the character data (C string) to the caller without freeing the memory allocated for that object as reported by valgrind: 24 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 2,805 of 6,532 at 0x4839809: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:307) by 0x55AABB8: g_malloc (in /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0.6600.8) by 0x55C2481: g_slice_alloc (in /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0.6600.8) by 0x55C4827: g_string_sized_new (in /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0.6600.8) by 0x55C4CEA: g_string_new (in /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0.6600.8) by 0x906314: get_relocated_path (cutils.c:1036) by 0x6E1F77: qemu_read_default_config_file (vl.c:2122) by 0x6E1F77: qemu_init (vl.c:2687) by 0x3E3AF8: main (main.c:49) Let's use g_string_free(gstring, false) to free only the GString object and transfer the ownership of the character data to the caller. Fixes: f4f5ed2cbd ("cutils: introduce get_relocated_path") Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster Message-Id: <20210412170255.231406-1-sgarzare@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier --- util/cutils.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/util/cutils.c b/util/cutils.c index ee908486da..c9b91e7535 100644 --- a/util/cutils.c +++ b/util/cutils.c @@ -1055,5 +1055,5 @@ char *get_relocated_path(const char *dir) assert(G_IS_DIR_SEPARATOR(dir[-1])); g_string_append(result, dir - 1); } - return result->str; + return g_string_free(result, false); }