Python auparse bindings memory leak
Steve Grubb
sgrubb at redhat.com
Thu Apr 21 19:16:50 UTC 2016
Hello,
On Thursday, April 14, 2016 02:37:19 PM Santosh Ananthakrishnan wrote:
> The get_timestamp function in the auparse extension module seems to have an
> extra Py_INCREF. There's already a #FIXME at the line:
> https://fedorahosted.org/audit/browser/tags/audit-2.5.1/bindings/python/aupa
> rse_python.c#L1090 .
>
> Has this been investigated before?
I was able to confirm this is leaking memory.
> Rebuilding the package with that increment removed resolved our memory usage
> issues, so I'm hoping this doesn't silently break something.
That appears to be the fix. Thanks for reporting the issue.
-Steve
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