From: Alexander Bulekov <alxndr@bu.edu>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>,
Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pc: fix leak in pc_system_flash_cleanup_unused
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2020 09:06:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200701130620.cldkfygyhz6oscev@mozz.bu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <edb74f76-57a0-ef4b-17fa-f9f4b5dae8bc@redhat.com>
On 200701 0749, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 01/07/20 03:58, Alexander Bulekov wrote:
> > fix a leak detected when building with --enable-sanitizers:
> > ./i386-softmmu/qemu-system-i386
> > Upon exit:
> > ==13576==ERROR: LeakSanitizer: detected memory leaks
> >
> > Direct leak of 1216 byte(s) in 1 object(s) allocated from:
> > #0 0x7f9d2ed5c628 in malloc (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libasan.so.5)
> > #1 0x7f9d2e963500 in g_malloc (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.)
> > #2 0x55fa646d25cc in object_new_with_type /tmp/qemu/qom/object.c:686
> > #3 0x55fa63dbaa88 in qdev_new /tmp/qemu/hw/core/qdev.c:140
> > #4 0x55fa638a533f in pc_pflash_create /tmp/qemu/hw/i386/pc_sysfw.c:88
> > #5 0x55fa638a54c4 in pc_system_flash_create /tmp/qemu/hw/i386/pc_sysfw.c:106
> > #6 0x55fa646caa1d in object_init_with_type /tmp/qemu/qom/object.c:369
> > #7 0x55fa646d20b5 in object_initialize_with_type /tmp/qemu/qom/object.c:511
> > #8 0x55fa646d2606 in object_new_with_type /tmp/qemu/qom/object.c:687
> > #9 0x55fa639431e9 in qemu_init /tmp/qemu/softmmu/vl.c:3878
> > #10 0x55fa6335c1b8 in main /tmp/qemu/softmmu/main.c:48
> > #11 0x7f9d2cf06e0a in __libc_start_main ../csu/libc-start.c:308
> > #12 0x55fa6335f8e9 in _start (/tmp/qemu/build/i386-softmmu/qemu-system-i386)
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Bulekov <alxndr@bu.edu>
> > ---
> >
> > I am not very familiar with the QOM, so maybe this isn't the right way
> > of going about this. With the call to object_property_add_child in
> > pc_sysfw.c:pc_pflash_create, object_ref is called on the pflash device.
> > In the pc_system_flash_cleanup_unused function, there are calls to
> > object_propery_del and object_unparent, but it seems neither of these
> > calls object_unref. So do we need to manually decrement the refcount?
>
> Yes; you can also add it in pc_pflash_create, because
>
> /*
> * Since object_property_add_child added a reference to the child object,
> * we can drop the reference added by object_initialize(), so the child
> * property will own the only reference to the object.
> */
>
> (from object_initialize_childv).
Isn't that reference used at pc_sysfw.c:104 ?
pcms->flash[0] = pc_pflash_create(pcms, "system.flash0", "pflash0");
In this case, shouldn't we unref when
pc_sysfw.c:126 pcms->flash[0] = NULL
?
-Alex
> Paolo
>
> > hw/i386/pc_sysfw.c | 1 +
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/hw/i386/pc_sysfw.c b/hw/i386/pc_sysfw.c
> > index ec2a3b3e7e..f69a93671a 100644
> > --- a/hw/i386/pc_sysfw.c
> > +++ b/hw/i386/pc_sysfw.c
> > @@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ static void pc_system_flash_cleanup_unused(PCMachineState *pcms)
> > object_property_del(OBJECT(pcms), prop_name);
> > g_free(prop_name);
> > object_unparent(dev_obj);
> > + object_unref(dev_obj);
> > pcms->flash[i] = NULL;
> > }
> > }
> >
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-01 13:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-01 1:58 [PATCH] pc: fix leak in pc_system_flash_cleanup_unused Alexander Bulekov
2020-07-01 5:49 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-07-01 13:06 ` Alexander Bulekov [this message]
2020-07-01 14:18 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-07-01 7:34 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
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