[Samba] Memory leak in smbd in 4.6.0
Ralph Böhme
slow at samba.org
Wed Mar 15 10:05:15 UTC 2017
Folks,
fyi: there's a memory leak in the fileserver in the just released Samba 4.6.0 that affects
anyone using aio.
<https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12624>
Again, this only affects you if you use
aio read size > 0
aio write size > 0
in smb.conf.
During read and write operation smbd will leak memory allocated by worker
threads, the amount of memory leaked over time depends on the IO pattern.
Samba 4.6.1 will ship a fix for this, patches are also available at the
bugreport.
Until then the workaround is to disable aio by removing the aio read|write
settings from smb.conf.
Cheerio!
-slow
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