In the previous code, there was a memory leak issue where the
previously allocated memory was not freed upon a failed realloc
operation. This patch addresses the problem by releasing the old memory
before setting the pointer to NULL in case of a realloc failure. This
ensures that memory is properly managed and avoids potential memory
leaks.

Signed-off-by: Kuan-Wei Chiu <visitor...@gmail.com>
---
 tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c | 16 +++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c b/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c
index 27f5e7dfc2f7..af180278d56d 100644
--- a/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c
+++ b/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c
@@ -209,11 +209,13 @@ static void kvp_update_mem_state(int pool)
                         * We have more data to read.
                         */
                        num_blocks++;
-                       record = realloc(record, alloc_unit * num_blocks);
+                       struct kvp_record *record_tmp =
+                               realloc(record, alloc_unit * num_blocks);
 
-                       if (record == NULL) {
+                       if (record_tmp == NULL) {
                                syslog(LOG_ERR, "malloc failed");
                                kvp_release_lock(pool);
+                               free(record);
                                exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
                        }
                        continue;
@@ -345,11 +347,15 @@ static int kvp_key_add_or_modify(int pool, const __u8 
*key, int key_size,
         */
        if (num_records == (ENTRIES_PER_BLOCK * num_blocks)) {
                /* Need to allocate a larger array for reg entries. */
-               record = realloc(record, sizeof(struct kvp_record) *
-                        ENTRIES_PER_BLOCK * (num_blocks + 1));
+               struct kvp_record *record_tmp = realloc(
+                       record, sizeof(struct kvp_record) * ENTRIES_PER_BLOCK *
+                                       (num_blocks + 1));
 
-               if (record == NULL)
+               if (record_tmp == NULL) {
+                       free(record);
                        return 1;
+               }
+               record = record_tmp;
                kvp_file_info[pool].num_blocks++;
 
        }
-- 
2.25.1


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