linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] remote/stream-event: Fix a memory leak in?? remoteStreamCallbackFree()

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Message-ID: <20250626195327.GA1634935@bhelgaas>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2025 14:53:27 -0500
From: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
To: liu.xuemei1@....com.cn, devel@...ts.libvirt.org
Cc: mani@...nel.org, kwilczynski@...nel.org, kishon@...nel.org,
	bhelgaas@...gle.com, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, liu.song13@....com.cn
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remote/stream-event: Fix a memory leak in??
 remoteStreamCallbackFree()

[+to libvirt development list, since this looks like a libvirt patch,
not a Linux kernel patch]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 02:10:38PM +0800, liu.xuemei1@....com.cn wrote:
> From: Liu Song <liu.song13@....com.cn>
> 
> The ff callback is never called in remoteStreamCallbackFree() because
> cbdata->cb can not be NULL. This causes a leak of 'cbdata->opaque'.
> 
> The leak can be reproduced by attaching and detaching to the console of
> an VM using `virsh console`.
> 
> ASAN reports the leak stack as:
> Direct leak of 288 byte(s) in 1 object(s) allocated from:
>     #0 0x7f6edf6ba0c7 in calloc (/lib64/libasan.so.8+0xba0c7)
>     #1 0x7f6edf5175b0 in g_malloc0 (/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0+0x615b0)
>     #2 0x7f6ede6d0be3 in g_type_create_instance (/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0+0x3cbe3)
>     #3 0x7f6ede6b82cf in g_object_new_internal (/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0+0x242cf)
>     #4 0x7f6ede6b9877 in g_object_new_with_properties (/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0+0x25877)
>     #5 0x7f6ede6ba620 in g_object_new (/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0+0x26620)
>     #6 0x7f6edeb78138 in virObjectNew ../src/util/virobject.c:252
>     #7 0x7f6edeb7a78b in virObjectLockableNew ../src/util/virobject.c:274
>     #8 0x558251e427e1 in virConsoleNew ../tools/virsh-console.c:369
>     #9 0x558251e427e1 in virshRunConsole ../tools/virsh-console.c:427
> 
> Signed-off-by: Liu Song <liu.song13@....com.cn>
> ---
>  src/remote/remote_daemon_stream.c | 2 +-
>  src/remote/remote_driver.c        | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/remote/remote_daemon_stream.c b/src/remote/remote_daemon_stream.c
> index 453728a66b..a5032f9a43 100644
> --- a/src/remote/remote_daemon_stream.c
> +++ b/src/remote/remote_daemon_stream.c
> @@ -437,13 +437,13 @@ int daemonAddClientStream(virNetServerClient *client,
>          return -1;
>      }
> 
> +    virObjectRef(client);
>      if (virStreamEventAddCallback(stream->st, 0,
>                                    daemonStreamEvent, client,
>                                    virObjectUnref) < 0)
>          return -1;
> 
>      virObjectRef(client);
> -
>      if ((stream->filterID = virNetServerClientAddFilter(client,
>                                                          daemonStreamFilter,
>                                                          stream)) < 0) {
> diff --git a/src/remote/remote_driver.c b/src/remote/remote_driver.c
> index 2690c05267..9ac13469e9 100644
> --- a/src/remote/remote_driver.c
> +++ b/src/remote/remote_driver.c
> @@ -5336,7 +5336,7 @@ static void remoteStreamCallbackFree(void *opaque)
>  {
>      struct remoteStreamCallbackData *cbdata = opaque;
> 
> -    if (!cbdata->cb && cbdata->ff)
> +    if (cbdata->ff)
>          (cbdata->ff)(cbdata->opaque);
> 
>      virObjectUnref(cbdata->st);
> -- 
> 2.27.0