[syslog-ng] Memory leak reintroduced in 3.3.3.

Gergely Nagy algernon at balabit.hu
Fri Mar 30 14:35:12 CEST 2012


Jakub Jankowski <shasta at toxcorp.com> writes:

> On Thursday 22 of March 2012, Peter Czanik wrote:
>> On 03/22/2012 02:46 PM, Jakub Jankowski wrote:
>> > 
>> > I know at least about one memory leak that has been once fixed, but then
>> > reintroduced between 3.3.2 and 3.3.3, and I think is present since then.
>> > I've mentioned it on this list in February:
>> > https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/2012-February/018334.html
>> > 
>> > It would be really nice if developers could take a look at the code
>> > again. :)
>> 
>> Check this: https://bugzilla.balabit.com/show_bug.cgi?id=160 The
>> mentioned patch is available at
>> http://git.balabit.hu/?p=bazsi/syslog-ng-3.3.git;a=commit;h=3c14a264ab4c76b9372b1288d6808d19ec4d0aed
>
> Unfortunately, this doesn't fix the memleak I'm seeing. I've just recreated
> my testbed and tried current 3.3 HEAD (using Gergely's tarball as source:
> http://packages.madhouse-project.org/syslog-ng/3.3/3.3.4/syslog-ng-3.3.4-20120313-v3.3.4-7-gfd3b.tar.gz)
> and can confirm "my" leak is still happening.

Thanks for the detailed report, I was able to reproduce the problem (at
least the leak - I didn't get any empty files), and am now looking into
it.

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