On Thu, 1 Nov 2018 15:27:02 +0100
Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 1/11/18 11:44, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> > object_new() returns a new backend with refcount == 1 and
> > then later object_property_add_child() increases refcount to 2
> > So when ivshmem is desroyed, the backend it has created isn't  
> 
>                       ^ "destroyed"
Thanks, fixed in v2

> 
> > destroyed along with it as children cleanup will bring
> > backend's refcount only to 1, which leaks backend including
> > resources it is using.
> > 
> > Drop the original reference from object_new() once backend
> > is attached to its parent.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imamm...@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >   hw/misc/ivshmem.c | 1 +
> >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/hw/misc/ivshmem.c b/hw/misc/ivshmem.c
> > index f88910e..ecfd10a 100644
> > --- a/hw/misc/ivshmem.c
> > +++ b/hw/misc/ivshmem.c
> > @@ -1279,6 +1279,7 @@ static void desugar_shm(IVShmemState *s)
> >       object_property_set_bool(obj, true, "share", &error_abort);
> >       object_property_add_child(OBJECT(s), "internal-shm-backend", obj,
> >                                 &error_abort);
> > +    object_unref(obj);
> >       user_creatable_complete(obj, &error_abort);
> >       s->hostmem = MEMORY_BACKEND(obj);
> >   }
> >   
> 


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