Winbindd Memory Leak
Jeremy Allison
jra at samba.org
Wed Oct 3 16:32:02 GMT 2001
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 09:05:56AM +1000, Tim Potter wrote:
> There is a call to lp_talloc_free() in the winbindd main loop
> which should free memory as it is going along. This only frees
> memory from the global tdb used for parameter strings. I suspect
> there is another TALLOC_CTX that is being used, probably in the
> rpc code, that is not being freed. I'm taking a look at it now.
Tim and I just had a chat about this. Winbindd is broken w.r.t.
talloc freeing, and needs to be recoded with talloc_destroy()
calls between RPC calls. Tim is now aware of this and we're on
it.....
Jeremy.
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