ldb_search interface considered harmful

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Tue Jan 31 20:38:42 GMT 2006


On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 09:18 -0500, simo wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 22:21 +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 16:02 +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > > I've recently been working on the Samba4 code, and the output of
> > > --leak-report-full in particular.
> > > 
> > > The contents of this (for an inactive connection) should be quite small,
> > > but I initially found a large number of ldb_message structures being
> > > kept around.  
> > 
> > While I still think the interface needs work, I actually found that a
> > bug in the index'ed path caused the ldb_message (and not the ldb_result)
> > to be attached to the ldb.  This cleaned up the remaining cases I found.
> 
> This need to be fixed!
> As said before by freeing the result you must be sure everything get
> freed.

I fixed this in -r 13258

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College  http://hawkerc.net
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