[PATCH] hw/misc/bcm2835_powermgt: Free timer during finalize to avoid memory leak

Thomas Huth posted 1 patch 2 weeks, 2 days ago
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Maintainers: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@oss.qualcomm.com>
hw/misc/bcm2835_powermgt.c | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
[PATCH] hw/misc/bcm2835_powermgt: Free timer during finalize to avoid memory leak
Posted by Thomas Huth 2 weeks, 2 days ago
When running e.g. the device-introspect-test with valgrind, there are
reports that the code in bcm2835_powermgt.c leaks memory like this:

  48 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 2,090 of 4,315
     at 0x6B4B62B: calloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:1616)
     by 0x7AFF6E1: g_malloc0 (in /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0.8800.3)
     by 0x42B1E48: timer_new_full (timer.h:520)
     by 0x42B1E48: timer_new (timer.h:543)
     by 0x42B1E48: timer_new_ns (timer.h:563)
     by 0x42B1E48: bcm2835_powermgt_init (bcm2835_powermgt.c:151)
     by 0x48632E3: object_init_with_type (object.c:426)
     by 0x48632E3: object_initialize_with_type (object.c:508)
     by 0x48636BE: object_new_with_type (object.c:706)
     by 0x4962FF1: qmp_device_list_properties (qom-qmp-cmds.c:206)
     by 0x44ACB90: qdev_device_help (qdev-monitor.c:315)
     by 0x44AE14E: hmp_device_add (qdev-monitor.c:1018)

Free the timer during finalize() to avoid this problem.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
---
 hw/misc/bcm2835_powermgt.c | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/hw/misc/bcm2835_powermgt.c b/hw/misc/bcm2835_powermgt.c
index 7b01be48bb7..e31fcb1f131 100644
--- a/hw/misc/bcm2835_powermgt.c
+++ b/hw/misc/bcm2835_powermgt.c
@@ -152,6 +152,14 @@ static void bcm2835_powermgt_init(Object *obj)
                                  bcm2835_powermgt_expire, s);
 }
 
+static void bcm2835_powermgt_finalize(Object *obj)
+{
+    BCM2835PowerMgtState *s = BCM2835_POWERMGT(obj);
+
+    timer_free(s->wdog_timer);
+    s->wdog_timer = NULL;
+}
+
 static void bcm2835_powermgt_reset(DeviceState *dev)
 {
     BCM2835PowerMgtState *s = BCM2835_POWERMGT(dev);
@@ -177,6 +185,7 @@ static const TypeInfo bcm2835_powermgt_info = {
     .instance_size = sizeof(BCM2835PowerMgtState),
     .class_init    = bcm2835_powermgt_class_init,
     .instance_init = bcm2835_powermgt_init,
+    .instance_finalize = bcm2835_powermgt_finalize,
 };
 
 static void bcm2835_powermgt_register_types(void)
-- 
2.55.0
Re: [PATCH] hw/misc/bcm2835_powermgt: Free timer during finalize to avoid memory leak
Posted by Peter Maydell 1 week, 5 days ago
On Thu, 10 Sept 2026 at 18:50, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> When running e.g. the device-introspect-test with valgrind, there are
> reports that the code in bcm2835_powermgt.c leaks memory like this:
>
>   48 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 2,090 of 4,315
>      at 0x6B4B62B: calloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:1616)
>      by 0x7AFF6E1: g_malloc0 (in /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0.8800.3)
>      by 0x42B1E48: timer_new_full (timer.h:520)
>      by 0x42B1E48: timer_new (timer.h:543)
>      by 0x42B1E48: timer_new_ns (timer.h:563)
>      by 0x42B1E48: bcm2835_powermgt_init (bcm2835_powermgt.c:151)
>      by 0x48632E3: object_init_with_type (object.c:426)
>      by 0x48632E3: object_initialize_with_type (object.c:508)
>      by 0x48636BE: object_new_with_type (object.c:706)
>      by 0x4962FF1: qmp_device_list_properties (qom-qmp-cmds.c:206)
>      by 0x44ACB90: qdev_device_help (qdev-monitor.c:315)
>      by 0x44AE14E: hmp_device_add (qdev-monitor.c:1018)
>
> Free the timer during finalize() to avoid this problem.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> ---



Applied to target-arm.next, thanks.

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