resource leak in gss_krb5_copy_ccache
Morten Sylvest Olsen
mso at medical-insight.com
Wed Sep 9 06:49:23 EDT 2009
Greg Hudson wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 07:11 -0400, Morten Sylvest Olsen wrote:
>> I keep getting valgrind leaks reported when I use gss_krb5_copy_ccache.
>> Looking at the code, it seems there is a krb5_free_cred_contents
>> missing. Or I may be completely off the mark?
>
> I believe you are correct. Can you please test out the attached patch
> and see if it closes the memory leaks you're seeing without causing
> other issues?
That seemed to do the trick. Our normal build environment is rhel 5.3,
which provides mit krb5 1.6.1. The gssapi code is basically the same as
in 1.7, I tried your fix in both, and it fixes the leak without ill
effects.
Saw another leak in 1.7, though I didn't investigate it further:
==4937== 184 bytes in 8 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 126 of 185
==4937== at 0x40053C0: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:149)
==4937== by 0x4E46DF: strdup (in /lib/libc-2.5.so)
==4937== by 0x52B726: gaih_inet (in /lib/libc-2.5.so)
==4937== by 0x52D9F2: getaddrinfo (in /lib/libc-2.5.so)
==4937== by 0x5813BC6: krb5int_getaddrinfo (fake-addrinfo.c:315)
==4937== by 0x552817E: krb5_sname_to_principal (sn2princ.c:112)
==4937== by 0x57BC963: krb5_gss_import_name (import_name.c:99)
==4937== by 0x57B18EB: gssint_import_internal_name (g_glue.c:306)
==4937== by 0x57AF8BA: gss_add_cred (g_acquire_cred.c:383)
==4937== by 0x57AFBC9: gss_acquire_cred (g_acquire_cred.c:198)
==4937== by 0x797CCCA: (within /usr/lib/sasl2/libgssapiv2.so.2.0.22)
==4937== by 0x33CD4F5: sasl_server_step (in /usr/lib/libsasl2.so.2.0.22)
/Morten
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