stack corruption in the webservice code

[Thiago Macieira]

On terça-feira, 10 de dezembro de 2013 10:18:07, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Basically, every time you convert from QString to a "normal" string,
> you need to keep the QString around as long as that string is used. Or
> do a strdup(). Or just not convert at all, and keep it as a QString,
> so that the compiler will do the proper liveness analysis and keep it
> around.

Actually, you need to keep the QByteArray temporary.

	QByteArray tempfileBA = tempfileQ.toLocal8Bit();
	tempfile = tempfileBA.constData();

It's the QByteArray that owns the memory block. QByteArray is basically a 
glorified on-scope-exit-call-free() object :-)

> Too bad we don't get compiler warnings for things like this. And
> apparently malloc library debugging doesn't work very well for
> automatic C++ objects (since the compiler presumably just allocates
> them on the stack).

Valgrind is able to catch them. It will tell you that you're accessing a 
memory block freed inside ~QByteArray.

The tool that Lubomir used said the memory was freed, but didn't say where. 
Valgrind does that.

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