使用无效命令的fork会导致valgrind中的内存泄漏

时间:2016-12-13 17:16:16

标签: c linux memory-leaks valgrind

我有以下代码在fork中执行无效命令。 以下代码在valgrind中返回内存泄漏。

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdarg.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <unistd.h>


int external_cmd(char **argv)
{
    int pid;

    if ((pid = fork()) == -1)
        return -1;

    if (pid == 0) {
        /* child */
        execvp(argv[0], argv);
        exit(0);

    } else if (pid < 0)
        return -1;

    int status;
    while (wait(&status) != pid);

    return 0;
}

int main ()
{
    char *argv[8] = {0};
    argv[0] = "tawtaw"; //<--------- invalid command
    argv[1] = "-a";

    char *mem = strdup("anychar");

    /* fork call */
    external_cmd(argv);

    free(mem);

   return(0);
}

用valgrind返回执行上面的代码:

$ valgrind --leak-check=full --show-leak-kinds=all ./test
==11573== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==11573== Copyright (C) 2002-2013, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==11573== Using Valgrind-3.10.1 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==11573== Command: ./test
==11573== 
==11574== 
==11574== HEAP SUMMARY:
==11574==     in use at exit: 8 bytes in 1 blocks
==11574==   total heap usage: 1 allocs, 0 frees, 8 bytes allocated
==11574== 
==11574== 8 bytes in 1 blocks are still reachable in loss record 1 of 1
==11574==    at 0x4C2AB80: malloc (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
==11574==    by 0x4EBF729: strdup (strdup.c:42)
==11574==    by 0x400747: main (in /home/mohamed/Desktop/tech/test/test)
==11574== 
==11574== LEAK SUMMARY:
==11574==    definitely lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==11574==    indirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==11574==      possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==11574==    still reachable: 8 bytes in 1 blocks
==11574==         suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==11574== 
==11574== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v
==11574== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0)
==11573== 
==11573== HEAP SUMMARY:
==11573==     in use at exit: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==11573==   total heap usage: 1 allocs, 1 frees, 8 bytes allocated
==11573== 
==11573== All heap blocks were freed -- no leaks are possible
==11573== 
==11573== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v
==11573== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0)

注意:如果我使用有效命令执行代码&#34; ls&#34;而不是&#34; tawtaw&#34;然后valgring将不会返回内存泄漏。

我缺少什么?

2 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:2)

这是预期的。当execve()无法执行命令时,它会将控制权返回给您的代码,而不是退出并永远不会从strdup()释放内存。

execve成功时,将替换整个文件图像,并且没有任何内容保留在strdup()分配的内存中。

答案 1 :(得分:1)

你不应该关心这个“泄漏”,因为这只是你的过程异常终止。当您只需打印错误消息并退出时,不应该小心地释放资源。操作系统将释放所有未完成的资源。

如果您出于某种原因仍然对此感到担心,请尝试将exit(0)替换为return -1;。在实际程序中,您永远不会使用exit,而只能使用释放已分配资源的正常返回路径。在C ++中,使用RAII并在需要异常退出时抛出异常。这是你的程序转换为RAII风格:

#include <cstdlib>
#include <cstdarg>
#include <cerrno>
#include <vector>
#include <string>
#include <cstring>
#include <algorithm>
#include <iostream>
#include <stdexcept>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>

// This function should be standard in some kind of POSIX C++ library
void execvp(const std::string& program, const std::vector<std::string>& args)
{
    std::vector<const char*> real_argv(args.size()+1);
    for (const std::string& s : args)
        real_argv.push_back(s.c_str());
    real_argv.push_back(nullptr);
    // have to use const_cast because of the broken const model of C
    execvp(program.c_str(), const_cast<char**>(real_argv.data()));
    throw std::runtime_error((std::string("Could not execvp ") + args[0]).c_str());
}

int external_cmd(const std::string& program, const std::vector<std::string>& args)
{
    int pid;

    if ((pid = fork()) == -1)
        return -1;

    if (pid == 0) {
        /* child */
        execvp(program, args);

    } else if (pid < 0)
        return -1;

    int status;
    while (wait(&status) != pid);

    return 0;
}

int main ()
{
    try {
        std::vector<std::string> args;
        args.push_back("tawtaw");
        args.push_back("-a");

        std::string s("12345678"); // RAII

        /* fork call */
        external_cmd(args[0], args);

        return EXIT_SUCCESS;
    } catch (std::exception& e) {
        std::cerr << e.what() << ". Exiting.\n";
        return EXIT_FAILURE;
    } catch ( ... ) {
        std::cerr << "Unexpected error. OS message is: " << strerror(errno) << ". Exiting.\n";
        return EXIT_FAILURE;
    }
}