Review Request: Fix possible memory and D-Bus connection leak in KStatusNotifierItem

Shaun Reich shaun.reich at kdemail.net
Tue Jun 7 05:07:04 BST 2011



> On June 6, 2011, 8:38 p.m., Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > i doubt this fix is correct. what looks more like is KStatusNotifierItemDBus::~KStatusNotifierItemDBus(). right now this is the implementation:
> > 
> > m_dbus.unregisterService(m_service);
> > 
> > and perhaps it should include:
> > 
> > m_dbus.unregisterObject("/StatusNotifierItem", this);
> > 
> > and perhaps even:
> > 
> > m_dbus.disconnectFromBus(m_service);
> > 
> > (though i expect the latter is done automatically when QDBusConnection is deleted? maybe not though...)

actually, looks like ~QDBusConnection() won't close the connection. apparently disconnectFromBus does indeed need to be called explicitly. /me suddenly wonders how much code doesn't do this, if need be.


- Shaun


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On June 6, 2011, 3:31 p.m., Christoph Feck wrote:
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> (Updated June 6, 2011, 3:31 p.m.)
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> Review request for kdelibs, Plasma and Marco Martin.
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> Summary
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> According to bug 261180 there is a D-Bus connection leak in KStatusNotifierItem. This patch potentially fixes it, but I do not know how to test it.
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> This addresses bug 261180.
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261180
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> Diffs
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>   kdeui/notifications/kstatusnotifieritem.cpp c48ed50 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/101527/diff
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Christoph
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