Memory leak caused by forwarded GSSAPI credential store

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Mon May 25 16:22:36 EST 2009



On Sat, 23 May 2009, miguel.sanders at arcelormittal.com wrote:

> Those memory allocations are never freed. Moreover, since those memory
> allocations are done in the privileged parent (which is a finite-state
> machine and never returns) before forking the unprivileged child,
> the memory leak gets doubled for each connection that uses GSSAPI
> credential forwarding.

I don't think so - the parent in this case is the per-connection privsep
monitor, so any leaks here will not affect the master listening process.

-d


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