[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/21] qapi: dealloc visitor, fix premature free and iteration logic

[Luiz Capitulino]

From: Michael Roth <address@hidden>

Currently we do 3 things wrong:

1) The list iterator, in practice, is used in a manner where the pointer
we pass in is the same as the pointer we assign the output to from
visit_next_list(). This causes an infinite loop where we keep freeing
the same structures.

2) We attempt to free list->value rather than list. visit_type_<type>
handles this. We should only be concerned with the containing list.

3) We free prematurely: iterator function will continue accessing values
we've already freed.

This patch should fix all of these issues. QmpOutputVisitor also suffers
from 1).

Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <address@hidden>
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <address@hidden>
---
 qapi/qapi-dealloc-visitor.c |   20 +++++++++++++++-----
 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/qapi/qapi-dealloc-visitor.c b/qapi/qapi-dealloc-visitor.c
index f629061..6b586ad 100644
--- a/qapi/qapi-dealloc-visitor.c
+++ b/qapi/qapi-dealloc-visitor.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ struct QapiDeallocVisitor
 {
     Visitor visitor;
     QTAILQ_HEAD(, StackEntry) stack;
+    bool is_list_head;
 };
 
 static QapiDeallocVisitor *to_qov(Visitor *v)
@@ -70,15 +71,24 @@ static void qapi_dealloc_end_struct(Visitor *v, Error 
**errp)
 
 static void qapi_dealloc_start_list(Visitor *v, const char *name, Error **errp)
 {
+    QapiDeallocVisitor *qov = to_qov(v);
+    qov->is_list_head = true;
 }
 
-static GenericList *qapi_dealloc_next_list(Visitor *v, GenericList **list,
+static GenericList *qapi_dealloc_next_list(Visitor *v, GenericList **listp,
                                            Error **errp)
 {
-    GenericList *retval = *list;
-    g_free(retval->value);
-    *list = retval->next;
-    return retval;
+    GenericList *list = *listp;
+    QapiDeallocVisitor *qov = to_qov(v);
+
+    if (!qov->is_list_head) {
+        *listp = list->next;
+        g_free(list);
+        return *listp;
+    }
+
+    qov->is_list_head = false;
+    return list;
 }
 
 static void qapi_dealloc_end_list(Visitor *v, Error **errp)
-- 
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