Memory leaks in smbd ?

Volker Lendecke Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Thu Nov 13 15:56:09 GMT 2008


On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 04:54:35PM +0100, Martin Zielinski wrote:
> Thanks for the hints, Jeremy!
> 
> I've looked quickly through the code of 3.2.4 and I think there are some 
> places that should be fixed.
> 
> Some are obvious, some may be wrong as the memory is linked to another 
> struct and will be destroyed later.
> However it is not allways visible in the code. Sometimes it is freed on 
> an error case and later in the same function it is not.
> 
> I found that the output of the smbcontrol program attached to my first 
> post is caused by a samu - allocation in pdb_getsampwnam ().
> 
> I think, that there is a bug in the memcache_add function.
> I allready asked Volker Lendecke in the "memory usage" thread on the 
> samba mailing list about that!
> 
> Attached is a diff against 3.2.4 which (hopefully) points to one or the 
> other potential leak.

No diff around.

Volker
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