Marcel Apfelbaum <marce...@redhat.com> writes: > On Fri, 2014-05-30 at 17:02 -0300, Eduardo Habkost wrote: >> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabk...@redhat.com> >> --- >> Cc: Marcel Apfelbaum <marce...@redhat.com> >> Cc: Andreas Färber <afaer...@suse.de> >> --- >> hw/core/machine.c | 8 ++++++++ >> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) >> >> diff --git a/hw/core/machine.c b/hw/core/machine.c >> index cbba679..df612bb 100644 >> --- a/hw/core/machine.c >> +++ b/hw/core/machine.c >> @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ static void machine_set_accel(Object *obj, const char >> *value, Error **errp) >> { >> MachineState *ms = MACHINE(obj); >> >> + g_free(ms->accel); > I am not sure if in QMP is not caller's responsibility to free the input > string. > If I think about it, I ask an object to set "my" string and it deletes it > :(... > Same for the others. > > Added Markus and Luiz, maybe they have an opinion on that. > >> ms->accel = g_strdup(value); >> } >>
Misunderstanding? Eduardo's patch frees the old value before it overwrites it. It doesn't free "the input string", assuming by "the input string" you mean argument value.