Max Reitz <[email protected]> writes:

> On 01.04.2016 17:57, Eric Blake wrote:
>> Commit 7836857 introduced a memory leak due to invalid use of
>> Error vs. visit_type_end().  If visiting the intermediate
>> members fails, we clear the error and unconditionally use
>> visit_end_struct() on the same error object; but if that
>> cleanup succeeds, we then skip the qapi_free call.
>
> It's not really a memleak. Due to skipping those conditional branches
> after the "out" label, a non-null value will be returned. In order to
> determine whether the function call failed, the callers of these
> functions do not use the errp value but the return value. Therefore,
> they will think the call succeeded when actually it did not.

Please amend the commit message accordingly.

>> 
>> Until a later patch adds visit_check_struct(), the only safe
>> approach is to use two separate error objects.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <[email protected]>
>> ---
>>  block/crypto.c | 12 ++++++------
>>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> Anyway, thanks, applied to my block branch:
>
> https://github.com/XanClic/qemu/commits/block
>
> Max

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