[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] virtio-net: fix the memory leak in rxfilter_notify()

[Amos Kong]

object_get_canonical_path() returns a gchar*, it should be freeed by the
caller.

Signed-off-by: Amos Kong <ak...@redhat.com>
---
v2: put gchar *path inside rxfilter_notify_enabled block
---
 hw/net/virtio-net.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hw/net/virtio-net.c b/hw/net/virtio-net.c
index 613f144..b75c753 100644
--- a/hw/net/virtio-net.c
+++ b/hw/net/virtio-net.c
@@ -200,16 +200,16 @@ static void rxfilter_notify(NetClientState *nc)
     VirtIONet *n = qemu_get_nic_opaque(nc);
 
     if (nc->rxfilter_notify_enabled) {
+        gchar *path = object_get_canonical_path(OBJECT(n->qdev));
         if (n->netclient_name) {
             event_data = qobject_from_jsonf("{ 'name': %s, 'path': %s }",
-                                    n->netclient_name,
-                                    
object_get_canonical_path(OBJECT(n->qdev)));
+                                    n->netclient_name, path);
         } else {
-            event_data = qobject_from_jsonf("{ 'path': %s }",
-                                    
object_get_canonical_path(OBJECT(n->qdev)));
+            event_data = qobject_from_jsonf("{ 'path': %s }", path);
         }
         monitor_protocol_event(QEVENT_NIC_RX_FILTER_CHANGED, event_data);
         qobject_decref(event_data);
+        g_free(path);
 
         /* disable event notification to avoid events flooding */
         nc->rxfilter_notify_enabled = 0;
-- 
1.8.3.1