[Spice-devel] patch[1/1] fix a memory leak in qxl_screen_init

Jeremy White jwhite at codeweavers.com
Wed Nov 6 05:59:58 PST 2013


Nice catch!

On 11/06/2013 03:37 AM, bigclouds wrote:
> hi, it allocate twice memory for qxl->uxa in function qxl_screen_init and qxl_uxa_init
> -----------------
> diff --git a/src/qxl_driver.c b/src/qxl_driver.c
> index 91ba6c2..6be61e4 100644
> --- a/src/qxl_driver.c
> +++ b/src/qxl_driver.c
> @@ -746,7 +746,9 @@ qxl_screen_init (SCREEN_INIT_ARGS_DECL)
>       }
>       qxl->uxa = uxa_driver_alloc ();
> -
> +    if (qxl->uxa == NULL)
> +return FALSE;
> +

Wouldn't it be better to just delete this instance of the
allocation and leave it all in qxl_uxa.c?

Also, just a kibitz, but most open source projects require
a full name on a submitted patch.

Cheers,

Jeremy


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