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authorJohn Newbery <john@johnnewbery.com>2018-05-07 17:08:03 -0400
committerJohn Newbery <john@johnnewbery.com>2018-05-15 13:28:29 -0400
commit59b87a27efea819e433c727756bf5fac57b33dd6 (patch)
tree0e299fa24e8b6f2b8e4da9804be7f0352894b837
parent13da2899ae42d48547e5cb491ea6aba4882b3306 (diff)
downloadbitcoin-59b87a27efea819e433c727756bf5fac57b33dd6.tar.xz
[wallet] Fix potential memory leak in CreateWalletFromFile
Fix proposed by ryanofsky in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/12647#discussion_r174875670
-rw-r--r--src/wallet/wallet.cpp10
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/wallet/wallet.cpp b/src/wallet/wallet.cpp
index 5be9f4a290..f9f567009a 100644
--- a/src/wallet/wallet.cpp
+++ b/src/wallet/wallet.cpp
@@ -4012,7 +4012,10 @@ CWallet* CWallet::CreateWalletFromFile(const std::string& name, const fs::path&
int64_t nStart = GetTimeMillis();
bool fFirstRun = true;
- CWallet *walletInstance = new CWallet(name, WalletDatabase::Create(path));
+ // Make a temporary wallet unique pointer so memory doesn't get leaked if
+ // wallet creation fails.
+ auto temp_wallet = MakeUnique<CWallet>(name, WalletDatabase::Create(path));
+ CWallet* walletInstance = temp_wallet.get();
DBErrors nLoadWalletRet = walletInstance->LoadWallet(fFirstRun);
if (nLoadWalletRet != DBErrors::LOAD_OK)
{
@@ -4224,7 +4227,6 @@ CWallet* CWallet::CreateWalletFromFile(const std::string& name, const fs::path&
}
walletInstance->m_last_block_processed = chainActive.Tip();
- RegisterValidationInterface(walletInstance);
if (chainActive.Tip() && chainActive.Tip() != pindexRescan)
{
@@ -4290,6 +4292,10 @@ CWallet* CWallet::CreateWalletFromFile(const std::string& name, const fs::path&
}
}
}
+
+ // Register with the validation interface. It's ok to do this after rescan since we're still holding cs_main.
+ RegisterValidationInterface(temp_wallet.release());
+
walletInstance->SetBroadcastTransactions(gArgs.GetBoolArg("-walletbroadcast", DEFAULT_WALLETBROADCAST));
{