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authorDamijan Skvarc <damjan.skvarc@gmail.com>2019-10-02 13:44:49 +0200
committerBen Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>2019-10-02 07:54:22 -0700
commit1bbc32df4b56b57a9685fe2e26dd5bfb70de1f03 (patch)
treef7e1c84f82110fb0e60e159e73a7e2f6edbf4bda
parente7ea37ac922b0873942fab34a4cb81fe05667073 (diff)
downloadopenvswitch-1bbc32df4b56b57a9685fe2e26dd5bfb70de1f03.tar.gz
vlog: fix memory leak in vlog_set_log_file() function
memory leak happens in case previously closed log file was reopened again, for example: ovs-appctl vlog/close ovs-appctl vlog/reopen memory leak is reported by valgrind in a form: ==4463== 76 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 322 of 344 ==4463== at 0x4C2DB8F: malloc (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so) ==4463== by 0x534314: xmalloc (util.c:138) ==4463== by 0x534384: xmemdup0 (util.c:168) ==4463== by 0x53ACB9: vlog_set_log_file (vlog.c:403) ==4463== by 0x53AEDC: vlog_reopen_log_file (vlog.c:434) ==4463== by 0x53AF22: vlog_unixctl_reopen (vlog.c:683) ==4463== by 0x533730: process_command (unixctl.c:308) ==4463== by 0x533730: run_connection (unixctl.c:342) ==4463== by 0x533730: unixctl_server_run (unixctl.c:393) ==4463== by 0x4073AE: main (ovs-vswitchd.c:128) Signed-off-by: Damijan Skvarc <damjan.skvarc@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
-rw-r--r--lib/vlog.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/vlog.c b/lib/vlog.c
index 01cfdc5d3..559943d87 100644
--- a/lib/vlog.c
+++ b/lib/vlog.c
@@ -395,11 +395,11 @@ vlog_set_log_file(const char *file_name)
/* Close old log file, if any, and install new one. */
ovs_mutex_lock(&log_file_mutex);
if (log_fd >= 0) {
- free(log_file_name);
close(log_fd);
async_append_destroy(log_writer);
}
+ free(log_file_name);
log_file_name = xstrdup(new_log_file_name);
log_fd = new_log_fd;
if (log_async) {