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Re: [PATCH] Fix resource leak in resolver (bug 19257)
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2016 12:42:33 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix resource leak in resolver (bug 19257)
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On 02/09/2016 02:00 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> writes:
>
>> On 02/09/2016 12:40 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>>> The number of currently defined nameservers is stored in ->nscount,
>>> whereas ->_u._ext.nscount is set by __libc_res_nsend only after local
>>> initializations.
>>
>> Is it possible to test this without a chroot?
>
> I don't know how. You need at least one IPv6 nameserver in
> /etc/resolv.conf to trigger the leak.
I posted a patch to help with testing:
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-02/msg00376.html
Florian