[PATCH v2 5/7] gstreamer: Fix leak of GstQuery and GstBufferPool in error path

Barnabás Pőcze barnabas.pocze at ideasonboard.com
Wed Jun 4 15:36:34 CEST 2025


Hi


2025. 06. 04. 15:07 keltezéssel, Laurent Pinchart írta:
> The gst_libcamera_create_video_pool() function leaks a GstQuery instance
> and a GstBufferPool instance in an error path. Fix the leaks with
> g_autoptr().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com>
> ---
>   src/gstreamer/gstlibcamerasrc.cpp | 7 +++----
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/gstreamer/gstlibcamerasrc.cpp b/src/gstreamer/gstlibcamerasrc.cpp
> index 9c0ee491ab63..0be64dd836ca 100644
> --- a/src/gstreamer/gstlibcamerasrc.cpp
> +++ b/src/gstreamer/gstlibcamerasrc.cpp
> @@ -541,9 +541,9 @@ static std::tuple<GstBufferPool *, int>
>   gst_libcamera_create_video_pool(GstLibcameraSrc *self, GstPad *srcpad,
>   				GstCaps *caps, const GstVideoInfo *info)
>   {
> -	GstQuery *query = NULL;
> +	g_autoptr(GstQuery) query = NULL;
> +	g_autoptr(GstBufferPool) pool = NULL;
>   	const gboolean need_pool = true;
> -	GstBufferPool *pool = NULL;
>   
>   	/*
>   	 * Get the peer allocation hints to check if it supports the meta API.
> @@ -587,8 +587,7 @@ gst_libcamera_create_video_pool(GstLibcameraSrc *self, GstPad *srcpad,
>   		return { NULL, -EINVAL };
>   	}
>   
> -	gst_query_unref(query);
> -	return { pool, 0 };
> +	return { reinterpret_cast<GstBufferPool *>(g_steal_pointer(&pool)), 0 };

`std::exchange(pool, nullptr)` ? I used that in https://patchwork.libcamera.org/patch/22455/
because `g_steal_pointer()` only preserves the type since glib 2.68.


Reviewed-by: Barnabás Pőcze <barnabas.pocze at ideasonboard.com>


Regards,
Barnabás Pőcze


>   }
>   
>   /* Must be called with stream_lock held. */



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