Steven Dake wrote:
> I'll be happy to try out your patch later today and report results back
> sometime this weekend.
Thanks!
> > Please see if the attached patch fixes the leak while still allowing
> > your program to keep running for a long time. I'm not completely sure
> > if the payload would need to be freed explicitly in _session_free()
>
> I had thought along these same lines, but the problem with freeing in
> sesson_free is that I don't free my session unless the connection is
> determined faulty. I could free and create a new session occasionally
> to hack around that, but seems like there should be a better way ;)
No, freeing session->payload in libssh2_session_free() is not the
solution to your problem, but it may be needed to properly clean up.
> one packet leaked is ok (with me), thousands not ok (current codebase).
One packet leaked is not ok with me.
> I'm here to help with finding any bugs/leaks/etc with libssh2. I
> can even help fix them - I've studied the code base for about 12
> hours so have a reasonable idea of how it operates.
All good. Looking forward to results from testing the patch.
//Peter
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