rpc/transport: Missing a ref on dict while creating transport object

while creating rpc_tranpsort object, we store a dictionary without
taking a ref on dict but it does an unref during the cleaning of the
transport object.

So the rpc layer expect the caller to take a ref on the dictionary
before passing dict to rpc layer. This leads to a lot of confusion
across the code base and leads to ref leaks.

Semantically, this is not correct. It is the rpc layer responsibility
to take a ref when storing it, and free during the cleanup.

I'm listing down the total issues or leaks across the code base because
of this confusion. These issues are currently present in the upstream
master.

1) changelog_rpc_client_init

2) quota_enforcer_init

3) rpcsvc_create_listeners : when there are two transport, like tcp,rdma.

4) quotad_aggregator_init

5) glusterd: init

6) nfs3_init_state

7) server: init

8) client:init

This patch does the cleanup according to the semantics.

Change-Id: I46373af9630373eb375ee6de0e6f2bbe2a677425
updates: bz#1659708
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Rafi KC <rkavunga@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/api/src/glfs-mgmt.c b/api/src/glfs-mgmt.c
index d502b4f46b6..7476d5b64f3 100644
--- a/api/src/glfs-mgmt.c
+++ b/api/src/glfs-mgmt.c
@@ -1015,6 +1015,10 @@ glfs_mgmt_init(struct glfs *fs)
     if (ctx->mgmt)
         return 0;
 
+    options = dict_new();
+    if (!options)
+        goto out;
+
     if (cmd_args->volfile_server_port)
         port = cmd_args->volfile_server_port;
 
@@ -1029,11 +1033,11 @@ glfs_mgmt_init(struct glfs *fs)
 
     if (cmd_args->volfile_server_transport &&
         !strcmp(cmd_args->volfile_server_transport, "unix")) {
-        ret = rpc_transport_unix_options_build(&options, host, 0);
+        ret = rpc_transport_unix_options_build(options, host, 0);
     } else {
         xlator_cmdline_option_t *opt = find_xlator_option_in_cmd_args_t(
             "address-family", cmd_args);
-        ret = rpc_transport_inet_options_build(&options, host, port,
+        ret = rpc_transport_inet_options_build(options, host, port,
                                                (opt ? opt->value : NULL));
     }
 
@@ -1075,5 +1079,7 @@ glfs_mgmt_init(struct glfs *fs)
 
     ret = rpc_clnt_start(rpc);
 out:
+    if (options)
+        dict_unref(options);
     return ret;
 }