Is this a real memory leak?

Ferenc Wágner wferi at niif.hu
Fri Jun 30 13:56:03 UTC 2023


Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> writes:

> On Thu, 2023-06-29 at 11:48 +0200, Ferenc Wágner via samba-technical wrote:
>
>>  Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> writes:
>>
>>>  On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 12:41:15PM +0200, Ferenc Wágner via samba-technical wrote:
>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>> Do you agree that this patches an actual memory leak?  If so, would you
>>>> please consider taking it?
>>>
>>> Thanks Ferenc, this does look like a real memory leak to me.
>>
>> Thanks for taking the time, Jeremy!  What could I do to get this
>> included in Samba, what's the preferred process for submitting patches?
>
> Ideally https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Contribute but I suspect we
> may be able to do something less heavyweight.
>
> Do you know Balazs?  I'm not sure we strictly need it for one line,
> but ideally we get a signed-off-by and a developer declaration from
> them.

Hi Andrew,

I don't know Balázs personally.  Given that the fix is fairly trivial,
what if we consider my email a bug report instead and one of you invents
and commits the fix?  We don't want (and probably couldn't) assert
copyright for that single line of code.
-- 
Thanks,
Feri.



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