Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:31:03 -0400 From: Andrew Boyer <aboyer@averesystems.com> To: Current FreeBSD <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Cc: Greg Bednarek <gbednarek@averesystems.com> Subject: Fwd: Memory leak in authunix_create_default()... Message-ID: <A36F8327-BD58-4904-99C7-FEB893FE3561@averesystems.com> References: <3C479FEC-971A-4099-9CA5-B522574BE763@averesystems.com>
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Begin forwarded message: > From: Greg Bednarek <gbednarek@averesystems.com> > Date: April 16, 2012 10:54:33 AM EDT > To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org > Cc: Andrew Boyer <aboyer@averesystems.com> > Subject: Memory leak in authunix_create_default()... >=20 >=20 > Please see the attached patch for a proposed fix for a memory leak in = authunix_create_default(). >=20 > The leak appears to have been introduced 6/19/2009 in Revision 194494 = of lib/libc/rpc/auth_unix.c >=20 > As you can see form the patch, the fix is very simple. The issue was = discovered when tracking down some rather drastic increases in = application memory footprint during certain types of workloads, and was = eventually traced it to this (apparently) not very heavily used path in = libc. >=20 > I would appreciate hearing any comments/concerns with the proposed = fix. >=20 >=20 >=20 > Regards, >=20 > Greg Bednarek >=20 >=20 > --- > Greg Bednarek > phone: 412-635-7170 x257 > fax: 412-635-7171 > email: gbednarek@averesystems.com >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 This got caught up in moderation and never reached the list. -Andrew -------------------------------------------------- Andrew Boyer aboyer@averesystems.com
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