On 09/17/2012 05:50 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 09/17/2012 03:48 AM, Laine Stump wrote:
>> virNetworkAssignDef was allocating a new network object, initing and
>> grabbing its lock, then potentially freeing it without unlocking or
>> destroying the lock. In practice 1) this will probably never happen,
>> and 2) even if it did, the lock implementation used on most (all?)
> This is probably a safe claim for Unix-like systems, but mingw can be
> rather surprising, and I think actually leaks resources in this scenario.

Yeah, I can easily imagine that, which is why it bothered me.


>> platforms doesn't actually hold any resources for an initialized or
>> held lock, but it still bothered me, so I moved the realloc that could
>> lead to this bad situation earlier in the function, and now the mutex
>> isn't inited or locked until we are assured of complete success.
>> ---
>>  src/conf/network_conf.c | 11 +++++------
>>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> ACK.
>

This also doesn't need the rest of the series, so I'll push now to avoid
the rush.

Thanks!

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