winbind 3.3.7 memory usage

[Danilo Almeida]

Hansjörg,

<quote from="Volker">
The only significant memory leak as reported by valgrind is
in the idmap child:

==14502== 83,415 bytes in 4,020 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 61 of 67
==14502==    at 0x4904A06: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:149)
==14502==    by 0x3B8E570FF1: strdup (in /lib64/tls/libc-2.3.4.so)
==14502==    by 0x14A71A61: ???
==14502==    by 0x14A7EBA4: ???
==14502==    by 0x14A85CAC: ???
==14502==    by 0x14A864F0: ???
==14502==    by 0x14A81CAD: ???
==14502==    by 0x147C51A7: ???
==14502==    by 0x147C7294: ???
==14502==    by 0x3B8E58E75E: getgrnam_r@@GLIBC_2.2.5 (in /lib64/tls/libc-2.3.4.so)
==14502==    by 0x3B8E58DDBE: getgrnam (in /lib64/tls/libc-2.3.4.so)
==14502==    by 0x391938: ??? (idmap_nss.c:189)
==14502==    by 0x387E72: idmap_backends_sid_to_unixid (idmap.c:785)
==14502==    by 0x388F0C: idmap_sid_to_gid (idmap_util.c:259)
==14502==    by 0xBFBE7: winbindd_dual_sid2gid (winbindd_idmap.c:374)
==14502==    by 0xB71B8: ??? (winbindd_dual.c:453)
==14502==    by 0xB7971: ??? (winbindd_dual.c:214)
==14502==    by 0xB7E2E: ??? (winbindd_dual.c:189)
==14502==    by 0x1445CB: run_events (events.c:233)
==14502==    by 0x85961: main (winbindd.c:850)

It seems that on your system getgrnam internally leaks
memory. There's nothing Samba can do about this.
</quote>

This might be a nsswitch module.  You might try looking at what modules you have in /etc/nsswitch.conf for groups and see if that might point you in the right direction.  If you have a non-default module, that might be the first one to investigate.

- Danilo