From 68ab47e4b4ecc1c4649362b8cc1e49794d1a6537 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Blake Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 15:45:32 -0600 Subject: qapi: Change visit_type_FOO() to no longer return partial objects Returning a partial object on error is an invitation for a careless caller to leak memory. We already fixed things in an earlier patch to guarantee NULL if visit_start fails ("qapi: Guarantee NULL obj on input visitor callback error"), but that does not help the case where visit_start succeeds but some other failure happens before visit_end, such that we leak a partially constructed object outside visit_type_FOO(). As no one outside the testsuite was actually relying on these semantics, it is cleaner to just document and guarantee that ALL pointer-based visit_type_FOO() functions always leave a safe value in *obj during an input visitor (either the new object on success, or NULL if an error is encountered), so callers can now unconditionally use qapi_free_FOO() to clean up regardless of whether an error occurred. The decision is done by adding visit_is_input(), then updating the generated code to check if additional cleanup is needed based on the type of visitor in use. Note that we still leave *obj unchanged after a scalar-based visit_type_FOO(); I did not feel like auditing all uses of visit_type_Enum() to see if the callers would tolerate a specific sentinel value (not to mention having to decide whether it would be better to use 0 or ENUM__MAX as that sentinel). Signed-off-by: Eric Blake Message-Id: <1461879932-9020-25-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster --- tests/test-qmp-input-visitor.c | 10 ++-------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'tests/test-qmp-input-visitor.c') diff --git a/tests/test-qmp-input-visitor.c b/tests/test-qmp-input-visitor.c index 6617276bce..cee07ce8dd 100644 --- a/tests/test-qmp-input-visitor.c +++ b/tests/test-qmp-input-visitor.c @@ -773,18 +773,12 @@ static void test_visitor_in_errors(TestInputVisitorData *data, visit_type_TestStruct(v, NULL, &p, &err); error_free_or_abort(&err); - /* FIXME - a failed parse should not leave a partially-allocated p - * for us to clean up; this could cause callers to leak memory. */ - g_assert(p->string == NULL); - - g_free(p->string); - g_free(p); + g_assert(!p); v = visitor_input_test_init(data, "[ '1', '2', false, '3' ]"); visit_type_strList(v, NULL, &q, &err); error_free_or_abort(&err); - assert(q); - qapi_free_strList(q); + assert(!q); } static void test_visitor_in_wrong_type(TestInputVisitorData *data, -- cgit 1.4.1