Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 15:59:15 +0200 From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr To: hackers@freebsd.org, Audit@freebsd.org Subject: memory leak in libfetch ? (with patch) Message-ID: <C1256A53.004CE34F.00@frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr>
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hello,
[this is using a 4.3-Release machine]
I'm using libfetch for automated file transfers from a program (via ftp).
The program is running for long periods of time, and seems to be leaking memory (at least it's SIZE in top(1) just grows and grows - the swap is also increasingly used).
As there is no dynamically allocated memory in my program, one suspect could be libfetch(3).
Indeed, there are 5 calls to malloc(3) in the source code of the lib :
- in common.c, line 263, which should not cause a leak as the pointer is stored in buf, which is later saved,
- in common.c, line 362, in a function which is not used in my app (the file name is known)
- in fetch.c, line 377, in a function which is used only for http/https transfers, thus not in my app,
- in http.c, line 517, in a function which is used only for http/https transfers, thus not in my app,
- finally in ftp.c, line 434, in a suspicious manner : the "io" variable is located on the stack, thus visible only from this function, gets a pointer to a newly allocated ftpio struct and disappears after _ftp_setup() returns.
The comparison between usr.bin/compress/zopen.c:zclose() and lib/libfetch/ftp.c:_ftp_close() shows a missing free(cookie) at the end of the function.
the following patch seems to cure the memory leak :
-----------------------------------------
--- ftp.c.ori Sat Apr 7 19:30:48 2001
+++ ftp.c Mon May 21 15:26:42 2001
@@ -422,7 +422,9 @@
io->err = 0;
close(io->csd);
io->csd = -1;
- return io->err ? -1 : 0;
+ r = io->err ? -1 : 0;
+ free(io);
+ return (r);
}
static FILE *
-----------------------------------------
TfH
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