realloc used

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Wed Oct 3 16:50:03 GMT 2001


On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 12:52:20PM +0300, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 09:56:29PM +0200, andreas moroder wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > in the HEAD cvs from 30.9   realloc was used in a few places instead of 
> > Realloc.
> > 
> > passdb/pdb_ldap.c    at line 301.   Attention there is also the leak problem 
> > x=reallco(x)  where x is never freed if the realloc fails:
> > 
> > 
> > intl/localealias.c lines 340 and 384
> > 
> > nsswitch/winbind_nss.c    line 825. Here there is the same x=realloc(x) 
> > problem as above.
> Seems that it can be source for the problems of memory leaks in winbindd
> I'm experiencing in past few weeks.

No, the winbindd memory leaks are logic bugs. Tim is working
on them right now.

Jeremy.




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