On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 1:02 PM Eugenio Perez Martin
<epere...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 10:17 AM <marcandre.lur...@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lur...@redhat.com>
> >
> > vhost_svq_get_buf() may return a VirtQueueElement that should be freed.
> >
> > It's unclear to me if the vhost_svq_get_buf() call should always return 
> > NULL.
> >
>
> Continuing conversation of v2,
>
> Yes there are situations where vhost_svq_get_buf can return a valid
> buffer here and we could leak memory, so this fixes a bug.
>
> So,
>
> Reviewed-by: Eugenio Pérez <epere...@redhat.com>
>
> Thanks!
>

(I hit "send" too early)

Wwe could use a better patch subject though. Even "Freeing leaked
memory from vhost_svq_get_buf in vhost_svq_poll" would work better for
me. What do you think?

Thanks!

> > Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lur...@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  hw/virtio/vhost-shadow-virtqueue.c | 4 +++-
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/hw/virtio/vhost-shadow-virtqueue.c 
> > b/hw/virtio/vhost-shadow-virtqueue.c
> > index 3b2beaea24..37aca8b431 100644
> > --- a/hw/virtio/vhost-shadow-virtqueue.c
> > +++ b/hw/virtio/vhost-shadow-virtqueue.c
> > @@ -414,6 +414,7 @@ static uint16_t vhost_svq_last_desc_of_chain(const 
> > VhostShadowVirtqueue *svq,
> >      return i;
> >  }
> >
> > +G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT
> >  static VirtQueueElement *vhost_svq_get_buf(VhostShadowVirtqueue *svq,
> >                                             uint32_t *len)
> >  {
> > @@ -528,6 +529,7 @@ size_t vhost_svq_poll(VhostShadowVirtqueue *svq, size_t 
> > num)
> >      size_t len = 0;
> >
> >      while (num--) {
> > +        g_autofree VirtQueueElement *elem = NULL;
> >          int64_t start_us = g_get_monotonic_time();
> >          uint32_t r = 0;
> >
> > @@ -541,7 +543,7 @@ size_t vhost_svq_poll(VhostShadowVirtqueue *svq, size_t 
> > num)
> >              }
> >          } while (true);
> >
> > -        vhost_svq_get_buf(svq, &r);
> > +        elem = vhost_svq_get_buf(svq, &r);
> >          len += r;
> >      }
> >
> > --
> > 2.45.2.827.g557ae147e6
> >


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