Subject: RE : About allocation/desallocation

RE : About allocation/desallocation

From: Jean-Louis CHARTON <Jean-Louis.CHARTON_at_oikialog.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 22:49:55 +0100

Hi Daniel,

I'm glad this help.

Now, maybe you better understand why my code allocated a 7 bytes buffer to store the method: just because the method is freed later in userauth_hostbased_fromfile / userauth_publickey_fromfile ...

Maybe a better solution could be to always assume/impose that methods be constant static storage everywhere in libssh2. In that case, there would be no need to deal with alloc/free aspect for methods ...

I think it's possible since after all, methods are strings like ssh-rsa, ssh-dss, ... which are fixed length strings.

JL

-----Message d'origine-----
De : Daniel Stenberg [mailto:daniel_at_haxx.se]
Envoyé : samedi 28 mars 2009 22:33
À : libssh2 development
Objet : Re: About allocation/desallocation

On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Jean-Louis CHARTON wrote:

> => Here, notice that on failure, session->userauth_host_method is freed.
> Also notice that in userauth_hostbased_fromfile, there is no call to
> free pubkeydata.

> So I believe there is a memory leak in userauth_hostbased_fromfile.
>
> Am I right or is there something I've missed?

I'd say you're entirely right! I've committed a fix for this just now. Thanks
a lot for your great catch!

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
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