[ovs-dev] [PATCH 3/3] ovsdb: Fix replication memory leak.

[Ben Pfaff]

On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 01:48:53PM -0700, Joe Stringer wrote:
> Valgrind reports:
> 
> ==18725== 32 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 339 of 497
> ==18725==    at 0x4C29BBE: malloc (in
> /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
> ==18725==    by 0x450F1F: xmalloc (util.c:112)
> ==18725==    by 0x41748E: replication_add_local_db (replication.c:137)
> ==18725==    by 0x40803B: ovsdb_replication_init (ovsdb-server.c:146)
> ==18725==    by 0x407C9E: ovsdb_server_connect_active_ovsdb_server
> (ovsdb-server.c:1165)
> ==18725==    by 0x450AB3: process_command (unixctl.c:313)
> ==18725==    by 0x4500DC: run_connection (unixctl.c:347)
> ==18725==    by 0x44FFB6: unixctl_server_run (unixctl.c:400)
> ==18725==    by 0x4081AC: main_loop (ovsdb-server.c:182)
> ==18725==    by 0x406432: main (ovsdb-server.c:429)
> 
> Fixes: 60e0cd041958 ("ovsdb: Replication usability improvements")
> Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joe at ovn.org>
> ---
> This also affects branch-2.6.

I'm surprised that neither Clang nor GCC gives a "value assigned is
never used" warning for this code.

Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>