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On Mon, Apr 24, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> writes: > > > Uli, please look at the ChangeLog file. You have removed similar free's > > in other parts of the NIS code. > > In some of them. But not the once where we terminated a function in > the case we found an error != ENOMEM. This happened in the function I > changed together with the missing frees in the __nis_destroy_callback. > This must have leaked quite a lot. There was no leak. It was ok that strdup returns NULL, nothing bad happens, but the other data could be enought for funcionality. Your current patches for nis_callback doesn't show any new free, so no memory leak fix from you there. > > > And your new Code is wrong. You derefence NULL Pointer !!!!! > > Where? For example here: --- nis_callback.c 1999/08/13 19:44:46 1.11 +++ nis_callback.c 2000/04/21 16:49:33 1.12 @@ -370,6 +402,11 @@ svc_destroy (cb->xprt); close (cb->sock); xdr_free ((xdrproc_t) _xdr_nis_server, (char *) cb->serv); + free (cb->serv->ep.ep_val[0].uaddr); + free (cb->serv->ep.ep_val[0].proto); + free (cb->serv->ep.ep_val[0].family); + free (cb->serv->ep.ep_val); + free (cb->serv->name); free (cb->serv); But as I can see from cvs, you have removed the code after my email this morning (or you have checked in your new changes after my email this morning). > > Please remove it complete and don't change code, which you don't > > understand in such a way. > > Well, I understand enough to see that the functions are leaking a lot > of memory during normal operation. Why does mtrace doesn't find them ? Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@suse.de SuSE GmbH Schanzaeckerstr. 10 90443 Nuernberg Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse, cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.
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