We g_strdup() the "status" string we get out of the qdict in get_dirty_rate(), but we never free it. Since we only use this string while the dictionary is still valid, we don't need to strdup at all; drop the unnecessary call to avoid this leak:
Direct leak of 18 byte(s) in 2 object(s) allocated from: #0 0x564b3e01913e in malloc (/mnt/nvmedisk/linaro/qemu-from-laptop/qemu/build/asan/tests/qtest/migration-test+0x22f13e) (BuildId: d6403a811332fcc846f93c45e23abfd06d1e67c4) #1 0x7f2f278ff738 in g_malloc debian/build/deb/../../../glib/gmem.c:128:13 #2 0x7f2f27914583 in g_strdup debian/build/deb/../../../glib/gstrfuncs.c:361:17 #3 0x564b3e14bb5b in get_dirty_rate tests/qtest/migration-test.c:3447:14 #4 0x564b3e138e00 in test_vcpu_dirty_limit tests/qtest/migration-test.c:3565:16 #5 0x564b3e14f417 in migration_test_wrapper tests/qtest/migration-helpers.c:456:5 Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> --- tests/qtest/migration-test.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tests/qtest/migration-test.c b/tests/qtest/migration-test.c index a659609ccb0..04122120987 100644 --- a/tests/qtest/migration-test.c +++ b/tests/qtest/migration-test.c @@ -3435,7 +3435,7 @@ static void wait_for_calc_dirtyrate_complete(QTestState *who, static int64_t get_dirty_rate(QTestState *who) { QDict *rsp_return; - gchar *status; + const char *status; QList *rates; const QListEntry *entry; QDict *rate; @@ -3444,7 +3444,7 @@ static int64_t get_dirty_rate(QTestState *who) rsp_return = query_dirty_rate(who); g_assert(rsp_return); - status = g_strdup(qdict_get_str(rsp_return, "status")); + status = qdict_get_str(rsp_return, "status"); g_assert(status); g_assert_cmpstr(status, ==, "measured"); -- 2.34.1