Memory leak in initialize_automatic_p11_kit()

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos nmav at gnutls.org
Thu Feb 23 08:44:52 CET 2012


On 02/23/2012 12:13 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:

> Valgrind is complaining about a minor memory leak. Looks like it's
> happening only once, on initialization. But, it's still a leak.
> 
> ==21602==    at 0x4A074CD: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:236)
> ==21602==    by 0x33D4486A81: strdup (in /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so)
> ==21602==    by 0x33DB805907: p11_kit_registered_module_to_name (in
> /usr/lib64/libp11-kit.so.0.0.0)
> ==21602==    by 0x3F70C48524: gnutls_pkcs11_init (in
> /usr/lib64/libgnutls.so.26.21.8)
> 
> Looking at the code, p11_kit_registered_module_to_name() returns a
> malloced buffer, which the caller seems to be responsible for freeing,
> and initialize_automatic_p11_kit() does not do that.


Thank you. Corrected.

regards,
Nikos





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