spoolss talloc problem

Stephen Gallagher sgallagh at redhat.com
Mon Aug 8 07:35:52 MDT 2011


On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 15:13 +0200, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> On Monday 08 August 2011 18:42:16 tridge at samba.org wrote:
> > Hi Simo,
> 
> Hi Tridge,
> 
> > http://git.samba.org/?p=tridge/samba.git;a=commitdiff;h=d24af812d76059c2f3b
> > 917b791c77175b388811a
> > 
> > it just ensures that a talloc chunk that is part way through being
> > freed doesn't have an invalid tc->prev pointer.
> > 
> > I'm still testing the fix, but it does seem to fix your issue. It is
> > also faster than the existing code (as we no longer call the expensive
> > talloc_parent_chunk() call when we don't need it).
> 
> I've tested the fix here and I wasn't able to reprodue the problem. However I 
> have a patch which fixes the problem in a different way and makes sure the 
> memory context doesn't get so huge.
> 
> http://git.samba.org/?p=asn/samba.git;a=commitdiff;h=7dbe148c0d43fe662490f940b27fc561c069d491
> 
> Feel free to push both :)


When these fixes are pushed, could you please do a tarball release of
talloc 2.0.6? The last talloc release was in January.
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