memory leak in inflate.c

Vijay.Singh at nokia.com Vijay.Singh at nokia.com
Tue Mar 15 12:22:45 PST 2005


Thanks. Could someone generate the patch as I dont have the latest
FreeBSD source checked out.

br
vijay

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of ext Marc Olzheim
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 11:31 AM
To: Marco Molteni
Cc: freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: memory leak in inflate.c


On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:43:52PM +0100, Marco Molteni wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 <Vijay.Singh at nokia.com> wrote:
> > Hi, I am trying to debug a memory leak in executing gzipped binaries
                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > when the parameter list is too long. The function in question is
> > inflate_dynamic(). 
>
> _If_ I remember correctly, if inflate_dynamic() returns a non-zero
> code it means that the decompression failed and the program itself
> quits right away, no memory leak. Or am I missing something?

Your missing something: /usr/src/sys/kern/inflate.c ;-)

Looks like a good patch to me.

Marc


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