[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 370 ipa-kdb: remove memory leaks
Simo Sorce
simo at redhat.com
Tue Feb 12 15:26:28 UTC 2013
On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 16:14 +0100, Martin Kosek wrote:
> Explained in the commit description - this may not be super-critical, I just
> followed info in ldap_search_ext() man page:
>
> ...
>
> Note that res parameter of ldap_search_ext_s() and ldap_search_s()
> should be freed with
> ldap_msgfree() regardless of return value of these functions.
> ...
OK.
> > This snippet seem to change the logic.
> >
> > Before the condition was !ipadb_need_retry() and no you change it to
> > ipadb_need_retry() so it looks reversed, was this on purpose ?
>
> As noted in commit description, this check was wrong and it was causing the
> function to _always_ retry at least once because ipadb_need_retry returns true
> when we need to retry and not 0 -> thus no "!" is needed.
I do not like much 'sneaking' this kind of change in the same patch that
fixes memory leaks, so if you want to plit in 2 patches it would be
nice, but I am of course ok with the change.
> > Why all this copying around ?
> > It should be sufficient to call krb5_free_data_contents() at the end at
> > most.
>
> You are right, I overengineered this one. Fixed.
Much better now, thanks.
> Attaching a patch fixing this one + an issue found by Sumit (sigh,
> quick-fix-before-send type of error).
Looks good to me now.
Simo.
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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York
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