Fwd: Memory leak in authunix_create_default()...

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> 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()...
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> Please see the attached patch for a proposed fix for a memory leak in =
authunix_create_default().
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> The leak appears to have been introduced 6/19/2009 in Revision 194494 =
of lib/libc/rpc/auth_unix.c
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> 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.
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> I would appreciate hearing any comments/concerns with the proposed =
fix.
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> Regards,
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> Greg Bednarek
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> ---
> Greg Bednarek
> phone: 412-635-7170 x257
> fax:        412-635-7171
> email: gbednarek@averesystems.com
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This got caught up in moderation and never reached the list.

-Andrew

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Andrew Boyer	aboyer@averesystems.com

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