On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 09:07:12PM +0800, xinhua.Cao wrote:
在 2017/11/12 22:45, John Ferlan 写道:On 11/11/2017 03:20 AM, xinhua.Cao wrote:在 2017/11/11 5:43, John Ferlan 写道:On 11/06/2017 12:47 AM, xinhua.Cao wrote:base on commit fe8f1c8b8650c8ab5e7d27338f4538582651bd14, we solve libvirt coredump problem, but it introduce a memory leak sense: 1. one client register a domain event such as reboot event 2. and client was terminated unexpectly, such as kill -9,unexpectedlythen this client object will not free at libvirtd service program. remoteDispatchConnectDomainEventCallbackRegisterAny reference the client, but when client was terminated before it call deRegisterAny,the reference of client will not reduced to zero. so the memory leak take place.What's the difference between the path that would terminate normally and the one that terminates abnormally. It seems to me there might be (an) extra Ref(s) on the client which prevents virNetServerClientDispose from calling it's @privateDataFreeFunc which would call remoteClientFreeFunc since remoteClientInitHook worked properly. That's what needs to be found.If client terminate normally, client would call virConnectDomainEventDeregisterAny to clear eventCallbacks. Then libvirt daemon will call remoteDispatchConnectDomainEventDeregisterAny -> remoteEventCallbackFree -> virObjectUnref(callback->client) to free eventCallbacks and unRef client. just think if client don't call virConnectDomainEventDeregisterAny and be killed. then there is no way to call call remoteDispatchConnectDomainEventDeregisterAny -> remoteEventCallbackFree -> virObjectUnref(callback->client) so client's ref can't down to zero. so remoteClientFreeFunc can't be called. then client object memory leak.So the client/sample code is not calling Deregister because it has no "handling" of an abnormal exit. That is no signal handler to call Deregister in the event some outside force kills the client/sample code while it's processing. So a different solution would be to add signal handling to the code in order to handle the kill and make the Deregister (and close) calls.signal handler can handle such as kill -15 signal, But can't handle kill -9 signal. so we also need to resolve it in libvirt
Basically we need to handle bad behaving clients in the daemon anyway. I tried running libvirtd under valgrind and there was no extra leak with a client which didn't deregister the callback. How did you encounter this? I really want to find the place that I think needs to be changed, but without a reproducer this is just a guessing game.
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