Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH-trivial] arch_init.c: Free 'cache' in cache_fini() to avoid memory leak

[Markus Armbruster]

Chen Gang <address@hidden> writes:

> On 06/04/2014 04:16 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> Chen Gang <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>>> Call g_free() after cache_fini() in migration_end(), but do not call
>>> g_free() after call cache_fini() in xbzrle_cache_resize() which will
>>> cause memory leak.
>>>
>>> cache_init() and cache_fini() are pair, so need let cache_fini() call
>>> g_free(cache) to match cache_init(), then fix current issue too.
>> 
>> I'm not sure I get you.  Is the following accurate?
>> 
>>     migration: Plug memory leak in migrate-set-cache-size command
>> 
>>     We call g_free() after cache_fini() in migration_end(), but we don't
>>     call it after cache_fini() in xbzrle_cache_resize(), leaking the
>>     memory.
>> 
>>     cache_init() and cache_fini() are a pair.  Since cache_init()
>>     allocates the cache, let cache_fini() free it.  This plugs the leak.
>> 
>
> Yeah, and excuse me for my poor English.

No problem, we figured it out together :)

Would be nice to use the above text as commit message.  Perhaps it can
be done on commit.