Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-Devel] [PATCH] Changed malloc to g_malloc, free to g_free in linux-user/qemu.h

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 12:02:03AM +0530, Md Haris Iqbal wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Md Haris Iqbal <address@hidden>
> ---
>  linux-user/qemu.h | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/linux-user/qemu.h b/linux-user/qemu.h
> index 26b0ba2..3c3fd15 100644
> --- a/linux-user/qemu.h
> +++ b/linux-user/qemu.h
> @@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ static inline void *lock_user(int type, abi_ulong 
> guest_addr, long len, int copy
>  #ifdef DEBUG_REMAP
>      {
>          void *addr;
> -        addr = malloc(len);
> +        addr = g_malloc(len);
>          if (copy)
>              memcpy(addr, g2h(guest_addr), len);
>          else
> @@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ static inline void unlock_user(void *host_ptr, abi_ulong 
> guest_addr,
>          return;
>      if (len > 0)
>          memcpy(g2h(guest_addr), host_ptr, len);
> -    free(host_ptr);
> +    g_free(host_ptr);
>  #endif
>  }

If I understand correctly either lock_user() or lock_user_string() may
be followed by unlock_user().  If you change unlock_user() to g_free()
then you also need to change lock_user_string() to g_malloc() to avoid a
malloc()/g_free() mismatch.

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