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.

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