patches to make bind9 with TKEY/GSS updates easier to configure

Mark Andrews marka at isc.org
Wed Dec 1 21:17:39 UTC 2010


In message <19702.14074.3238.758342 at samba.org>, tridge at samba.org writes:
> Hi Mark,
> 
>  > A memory leak.  The test suite runs with full memory debugging turned
>  > on and debuglist[i] has a linked list of arrays with <address,file,line>
>  > tuples with a pointer to the allocated memory and which file and
>  > line it was allocated at.  When memory is freed the tuple is cleared.
>  > When the array is empty it unlinked and freed.
> 
> ok, thanks for the info! I'd worked out it was a memory leak since my
> last email, but I hadn't worked out how to fix it. The file:line info
> in the list just pointed at the isc_mem_allocate() in isc___mem_get()
> and I hadn't yet worked out how to track that back to a specific
> allocation.

The line and file need to be passed to isc__mem_allocate()
 
>  > That said we have been chasing a leak in this area.  See attached.
> 
> thanks for the patch. Unfortunately after I apply it to 9.7.2-P2 I get
> an abort at startup. The REQUIRE(VALID_KEY(key)) in dst_key_alg()
> fails. Maybe the patch needs some other changes from CVS?

If you can send me a stack backtrace that would be useful, I suspect I
missed something.
 
> The bind9 CVS server seems to be down at the moment. I'll try again
> with current CVS when that comes back up.
> 
> Cheers, Tridge
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