Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block/qcow.c: Fix memory leak in qcow_create()

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 06/05/2017 10:55 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> Coverity points out that the code path in qcow_create() for
> the magic "fat:" backing file name leaks the memory used to
> store the filename (CID 1307771). Free the memory before
> we overwrite the pointer.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>

Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden>

> ---
>  block/qcow.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/block/qcow.c b/block/qcow.c
> index 95ab123..7bd94dc 100644
> --- a/block/qcow.c
> +++ b/block/qcow.c
> @@ -852,6 +852,7 @@ static int qcow_create(const char *filename, QemuOpts 
> *opts, Error **errp)
>              header_size += backing_filename_len;
>          } else {
>              /* special backing file for vvfat */
> +            g_free(backing_file);
>              backing_file = NULL;
>          }
>          header.cluster_bits = 9; /* 512 byte cluster to avoid copying