Memory leaks in smbd ?

Volker Lendecke Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Mon Nov 17 08:37:20 GMT 2008


On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 02:03:05PM +0100, Martin Zielinski wrote:
> I really had nothing to do with your memory system before, so you know 
> better, if all the memory will be cared of.
> But at some places, there are conditions, after which the struct is 
> freed and in the next error case it is not. It's quite tricky, to find 
> out if it is intended or not.

Very likely many of those assymetries are just ugly code.
For example this talloc_steal I was referring to is just
confusing and needs refactoring. But I don't think the are
real leaks.

Volker
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