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Memory leak in gpgme_data_release_and_get_mem
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gpgme_data_release_and_get_mem does not release the data object as it is
supposed to do. (and as it did in libgpgme6)

(Debian bug #389147)

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http://bugs.debian.org/389147

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jsogo added projects: Debian, Bug Report, gpgme.Sep 24 2006, 2:33 PM
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• werner assigned this task to marcus.Sep 25 2006, 10:56 AM
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• werner added a subscriber: • werner.Sep 25 2006, 10:58 AM

Might this be the reason that we somewhere have a complaint on Sylpheed eating
up the memory?

• werner set External Link to http://bugs.debian.org/389147.Sep 25 2006, 10:58 AM
marcus added a comment.Sep 25 2006, 4:23 PM

Hi,

I fixed this in CVS. Thanks for reporting it!

Werner: Could be contributing to it: Sylpheed uses this function extensively,
but as it does not include the buffer, it's only a small amount of memory per
crypto operation. I am nevertheless surprised nobody found this earlier.

doc/
2006-09-25 Marcus Brinkmann <marcus@g10code.de>

  • gpgme.texi (Destroying Data Buffers): Clarify that gpgme_data_release_and_get_mem destroys DH unconditionally.

gpgme/
2006-09-25 Marcus Brinkmann <marcus@g10code.de>

  • data-mem.c (gpgme_data_release_and_get_mem): Release the data object properly.
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• werner closed this task as Resolved.Apr 16 2007, 3:05 PM
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